TRUTANICH “MISLEADING VOTERS” ON REALIGNMENT, SAYS GOVERNOR With just a few days until...
DSM 5 Worries Attorneys…..Deportation By Association…The New World of Bi-Partisan Sentencing Reform…..and More
CHANGES IN THE OFFICIAL DEFINITION OF MENTAL DISABILITY WORRIES DEFENSE LAWYERS The newest revision...
Juvenile Solitary in CA, Gov. Brown’s Office Appeals Prison Pop. Order…and More
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LOCKING KIDS UP IN SOLITARY While severe and overused in the adult justice...
Foster Mother’s Day, LAUSD Voting to Reign in School Discipline…and More
FAMILIES AND ADVOCATES GATHER TO CELEBRATE FOSTER MOTHERS This past Sunday, the non-profit...
Board of Supes Will Interview LASD IG Candidates…. Lack of Opportunity for CA’s Working Poor….Thoughts on Michelle Knight….and More
SUPES TO HAVE CLOSED SESSION TO REVIEW CANDIDATES FOR NEW INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR THE LASD On...
LA Boy Scouts Group Says Allow Gay Leaders, Delaware Legalizes Gay Marriage, Equality for Trans Youth…and More
WEST LA BOY SCOUT CHAPTER PUSHES ORGANIZATION TO WELCOME GAY YOUTH AND ADULTS The W. LA County...
The Faces Behind the USC Party Arrests…and More
MORE ON THE ALLEGED LAPD RACIAL PROFILING AND THE KIDS WHO WERE CUFFED Tuesday night, there was an...
Supes Have Closed Door LASD Meeting …Valley Fever Flares in CA Prisons….Privacy Issues…And More
LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS CANCEL TRAVEL TO HAVE CLOSED DOOR MEETING ABOUT LASD CONCERNS There was to...
The Collateral Cost of CA’s Big Cuts to Mental-Health, LASD and Civilian Oversight…and More
EDITOR’S NOTE: After a few months hiatus, Taylor Walker is back posting at WLA. And...
CA DAs’ Creepy Death Penalty Bill Rejected…Jail Deputy Allegedly Beat Informant…. CA Submits Additional Prison Pop Reduction Strategies
CALIFORNIA PROSECUTORS WANT TO TRIM DEATH PENALTY APPEALS, GO BACK TO EXTREMELY PAINFUL FORM OF...
A New Bill Looks at California’s “Day Schools” & the School Push-Out Problem….LAT Editorial on Tanaka Interview…and More
PUSHING KIDS OUT: THE DAY SCHOOLS VERSION There are so many ways for a kid to get lost in our...
HOUSE OF CARDS: Former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Trashes Sheriff Lee Baca
EJECTED UNDERSHERIFF PAUL TANAKA ACCUSES SHERIFF BACA OF MISMANAGEMENT, OBSTRUCTION OF...
Homeboy Turns 25…..LASD Talks About Retaliation…WHAT Right to a Speedy Trial?…Feds Visiting LA Jails Tuesday…and More
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES AT 25 “If you want to change the world, change the metaphor,” said...
BETRAYAL OF TRUST – Two Sheriff’s Deputies, Sons of Cop Fathers, Sue LASD for Threats, Retaliation, Conspiracy & More
PROLOGUE Last week two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies, Michael Rathbun and James...
Miranda and Dzhokhar Tsarnaeve….Apologies in Criminal Law….More on the Koch-Bros & the LAT
MIRANDA AND DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV: WHEN WE’RE SURE THAT SOMEONE HAS DONE SOMETHING TERRIBLE, WHEN...
Progress on New Bill Re: Kids in Solitary…..How School Suspensions Backfire….Despair and Hunger Strikes at Git’mo….
SENATOR LELAND YEE’S BILL LIMITING USE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR KIDS PASSES OUT OF...
Unlikely Friends: A Film About Brutal Crime & Radical Forgiveness – in a Special LA Benefit Screening Saturday, 5 pm
When I woke up from surgery, as I was laying in ICU, I started to hate the man who shot me. I hated...
Secretly Painting Fr. Greg…..and The Benefits of Judges Shouting at Gov. Jerry
The May issue of Los Angeles Magazine contains a profile of Father Greg Boyle, the founder of...