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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 3: the Myth of the Model Inmate

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 2: How discipline plays an outsized role in CA parole decisions

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

December 29, 2025
#NoSafePlace

Is LA County’s women’s jail still an unsafe place for women to be? A new lawsuit says YES

December 28, 2025
#Oversight

LASD Oversight Part 3: LA County’s Inspector General has announced his retirement. But he has a lot more to tell us re: The struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department,

December 17, 2025
LA County Jail • LASD • Los Angeles County • Sheriff Lee Baca

HOUSE OF CARDS: Former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Trashes Sheriff Lee Baca

May 1, 2013
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EJECTED UNDERSHERIFF PAUL TANAKA ACCUSES SHERIFF BACA OF MISMANAGEMENT, OBSTRUCTION OF...

Charlie Beck • Civil Liberties • Crime and Punishment • FBI • Homeboy Industries • Jail • LA County Jail • LAPD • LASD

Homeboy Turns 25…..LASD Talks About Retaliation…WHAT Right to a Speedy Trial?…Feds Visiting LA Jails Tuesday…and More

April 30, 2013
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HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES AT 25 “If you want to change the world, change the metaphor,” said...

Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Pandora's Box • Race • Sheriff Lee Baca

BETRAYAL OF TRUST – Two Sheriff’s Deputies, Sons of Cop Fathers, Sue LASD for Threats, Retaliation, Conspiracy & More

April 29, 2013
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PROLOGUE Last week two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies, Michael Rathbun and James...

Civil Liberties • Civil Rights • Crime & Consequence • Criminal Justice • Journalism • Los Angeles Times

Miranda and Dzhokhar Tsarnaeve….Apologies in Criminal Law….More on the Koch-Bros & the LAT

April 26, 2013
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MIRANDA AND DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV: WHEN WE’RE SURE THAT SOMEONE HAS DONE SOMETHING TERRIBLE, WHEN...

Guantanamo • Jail • Juvenile Justice • Los Angeles County • Probation • Solitary

Progress on New Bill Re: Kids in Solitary…..How School Suspensions Backfire….Despair and Hunger Strikes at Git’mo….

April 25, 2013
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SENATOR LELAND YEE’S BILL LIMITING USE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR KIDS PASSES OUT OF...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice

Unlikely Friends: A Film About Brutal Crime & Radical Forgiveness – in a Special LA Benefit Screening Saturday, 5 pm

April 24, 2013
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When I woke up from surgery, as I was laying in ICU, I started to hate the man who shot me. I hated...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Gangs • Homeboy Industries • Prison Policy • Realignment • Reentry

Secretly Painting Fr. Greg…..and The Benefits of Judges Shouting at Gov. Jerry

April 23, 2013
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The May issue of Los Angeles Magazine contains a profile of Father Greg Boyle, the founder of...

CDCR • Charlie Beck • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Future of Journalism • Homeboy Industries • LAPD • LASD • Los Angeles Times • Media • Prison

Jittery Talk at LAT Book Fest About Koch Bros. Bidding for LA Times…How CA Can Get Back Control of its Prisons….and More News

April 22, 2013
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NY TIMES REPORTS KOCH BROTHERS MAY BE FRONT RUNNERS IN BIDDING TO BUY LA TIMES On Sunday the USC...

American Artists • American Voices • Los Angeles Times • Writers and Writing

It’s LA Times Festival of Books Weekend: Be There! (My “Guns in America” Panel Is Sunday)

April 19, 2013
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The LA Times Festival of Books is this weekend—Saturday and Sunday—on the USC campus. ...

American Voices • Art and Culture • Gangs • Homeboy Industries

G-Dog Movie Opens in Selected Theaters, April 22

April 19, 2013
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This documentary about Father Greg Boyle and his Homeboy Industries, directed by Academy Award...

LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca • Uncategorized

Two High-Level LASD Supervisors Demoted Over Charity Foot Race Cheating Scandal – UPDATED**

April 18, 2013
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While it doesn’t rise to the seriousness of illegal juicing for the Tour de France, cheating...

DEA • Education • LAPD • LAUSD • Restorative Justice • School to Prison Pipeline • War on Drugs • Youth at Risk • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Will LAUSD Regulate School Discipline & Ban “Willful Defiance?”….Far Right Lawmakers Say Let States Regulate Weed….LAPD’s Zero Tolerance,

April 17, 2013
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MONICA GARCIA’S STUDENT BILL OF RIGHTS On Tuesday, LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia...

LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

LASD Commander Accused of Sexual Harassment Allegedly Bragged About Running Illegal Errands for Baca

April 16, 2013
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As a part of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed in February by LASD Lieutenant Angela Walton...

LAUSD • Restorative Justice • School to Prison Pipeline • Youth at Risk • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

THE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE CRISIS: 3 New Bills, a Commission Hearing, a Groundbreaking Report… & LAUSD

April 15, 2013
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The topic of school discipline, school safety and the so-called school to prison pipeline continues...

LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Baca to Be Interviewed by FBI for Role in Hiding Federal Informant & More

April 11, 2013
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According to a new LA Times story, Sheriff Lee Baca “played a significant role” in the...

Courts • District Attorney • Juvenile Justice • LASD • Sentencing

LASD “COPS HIT Team” Opens Fire…CA Activist Gets Son Back After 3-Strikes Reform…..The Teen Court Option

April 11, 2013
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A SHOOTING IN LANCASTER Angel Mendez, 30, and Jennifer Garcia, 27, were assuredly not model...

Gangs • Jail • Prison

Texas AB—a New Look at White Supremacist Prison Gangs….SD’s Deadly Jails, Part 2…& More

April 10, 2013
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NPR LOOKS AT THE AB AND OTHER PRISON GANGS Prison gangs—in particular white prison...

LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement • School to Prison Pipeline • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

The War on Cops—that Isn’t….Rethinking Anti-Bulling Policies…Reporters & their Sources…..”Teacher Jail” Proposal Win’s Support

April 9, 2013
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A WAR ON COPS? When police officers are murdered, in addition to the unbearable hole it leaves in...

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