LA SHERIFF’S DET. CAUGHT LYING ABOUT READING MIRANDA RIGHTS Footage from the reality show...
WLA ON WWLA? With Warren Olney, Tuesday Night, 7 pm, Re: Operation Pandora’s Box
I did a quickie 10-ish minute segment on Warren Olney’s Which Way LA? that airs Tuesday night...
OPERATION PANDORA’S BOX: Will Hiding a Federal Informant Result in Criminal Indictments for Members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department?
PROLOGUE For 18 days in the summer of 2011, members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department...
No, We should Not Boycott Florida….A School’s Bet on NonViolence ….NYTimes on CA’s Hunger Strike….
WHY BOYCOTTING FLORIDA WON’T HELP The deeply painful issues that have arisen for so many...
Cheating on LASD Sergeant’s Exams….27 Death Penalty Cases Reviewed for Errors…Hunger Strike Leaders Further Isolated
On Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Lee Baca sent out a department wide email indicating that a few...
Mentally Ill Packed into LA County Jails, Oversight Sought for CA Developmental Centers…and More
THE ISSUE OF LOCKING AWAY MENTALLY ILL IN LA COUNTY JAILS LA Times’ Steve Lopez paid a visit...
LA Supes Consider Jail Project, Disciplined Kern County Students Face Meager Education Alternatives…and More
LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS TAKE STEPS TOWARD NEW JAIL FACILITIES The LA County Board of Supervisors...
MORE POST TRIAL NEWS: Violence at an LA Prayer Vigil……”What Do I Tell My Boys Now?”….Zimmerman Juror’s Speedy Book Agent Deal……..and more
PLANNED LEIMERT PARK COMMUNITY RALLY DISRUPTED BY VIOLENCE, RALLIERS DISMAYED A well-organized...
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman—and the Interweave of Fear, Heartbreak and Injustice that Haunts the Verdict’s Aftermath
Since the not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman was announced just a few minutes...
A Closer Look at the CA Prisoner Hunger Strike, Deeper Juvie Justice Budget Cuts?, and a Heart-wrenching Essay
A BREAKDOWN OF THE HUNGER STRIKE AND ISOLATION BY A MAN WHO HAS ENDURED IT After the 2011 prisoner...
State Lawmakers Want Probe of Prison Sterilization… CDCR Threatens Prison Hunger Strikers…Bloomberg Op Ed Compares Jerry Brown to George Wallace
STATE LAWMAKERS UNHAPPY AT NEWS OF PRISON STERILIZATIONS On Thursday, state lawmakers got...
As Probation Arms More Officers, Are They Getting the Right Training? by Matthew Fleischer
EDITOR’S NOTE: Under AB 109—AKA realignment—thousands of low-level offenders who...
Hunger Strike, Blue Ribbon Commission Nominees, and Gov. Brown Asks Justice Kennedy to Delay Court Order
CA PRISONER HUNGER STRIKE REACHES THIRD DAY The number of California prisoners refusing meals in...
Prisoner Hunger Strike Continues, Roundtable Discussion on Solitary Confinement…and More
SECOND DAY OF CA PRISONER HUNGER STRIKE Tuesday was the second day of the prisoner hunger strike to...
The Mysteriously Expanding Jail Construction Plan—$1.5 Billion and Counting
Alright, so when we last discussed the topic of jail building back in March of this year, LA County...
Prisoner Hunger Strike Begins, CA Prisons Sterilized Women without State Approval…and More
THE CA PRISONER HUNGER STRIKE COMMENCES Monday was the first day of a 30,000 CA prisoner hunger...
The Frightened Kid Who Writes Poetry & the Shooter….New CA Prison Hunger Strike Begins …& Crime As a Political Football
A few years ago, a veteran homicide detective from the Los Angeles Police Department talked to me...
Happy Independence Day!
The Boss at Fenway Park on August 15, 2012, singing with with Ken Casey of the glorious American...