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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
2012 Election • Death Penalty • District Attorney

DA Jackie Lacey Post-Election, Obama and SCOTUS, the Aftermath of Prop 34 Defeat and Prop 36 Victory

November 8, 2012
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LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY-ELECT JACKIE LACEY’S HISTORIC WIN (AND WHAT’S NEXT) Newly...

2012 Election • Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Elections • Homeboy Industries • Propositions • Sentencing

Three-Strikes Reform, Former Inmates & The Joy of the Right to Vote

November 7, 2012
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Norman Williams, who is in the photo above, was voting for the first time when the picture was...

LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Sheriff's Dept. Promotions Reportedly Manipulated at Orders of 2 Undersheriffs

November 7, 2012
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Amid the flood of election coverage on Tuesday, those following the ongoing Los Angeles...

2012 Election

Voting, Voting Consequences…and Pandas

November 6, 2012
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With Celeste Fremon TAKE TO THE POLLS LIST OF QUICKIE RECS FOR PROP VOTING: (We posted our...

California Supreme Court • Education • Elections • LAUSD • Mental Health

Unmasking Out of State Elections Donors, Voter Disenfranchisement…and More – UPDATED

November 5, 2012
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SECRET OUT OF STATE DONORS POURING $$ MILLIONS INTO CA ELECTIONS ARE ORDERED TO ID THEMSELVES ...

Natural Disasters • Springsteen

My City of Ruins: Springsteen Sings to New Jersey, 10/31/2012

November 2, 2012
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This is a funky recording bootlegged from the October 31, 2012, Springsteen concert in Rochester...

CCPOA • Civil Liberties • Crime and Punishment • CTA • District Attorney • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Elections • Innocence • Presidential Race • Propositions • Springsteen • Unions

The WitnessLA November 2012 Elections Endorsements

November 2, 2012
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With voting day looming on Tuesday, a quickie rundown of our thoughts and recommendations. THE...

Education • Juvenile Justice • LAUSD • Probation • Supreme Court • Uncategorized • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Juvie Lock-up Alternatives, Youth Crime Rate Record Low, and SCOTUS Considers Drug-Sniffing Dogs

November 1, 2012
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REFORMING JUVENILE DETENTION Georgia’s Judge Steven Teske explains how he came to see that...

Education • LAUSD • Life and Life Only • Unions • UTLA

UTLA Blocks LAUSD’s Hopes for Race to the Top $$…The Advantages of NOT Locking Up Kids…AND Brain Surgery & the Storm (One Sandy Story)

October 31, 2012
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WANT FEDERAL $$$ FOR LA SCHOOLS? TOUGH, SAYS THE LA TEACHER’S UNION The Los Angeles Unified...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • How Appealing • Medical Marijuana • Realignment

Once Lifer Mario Rocha Celebrates Anniversary of Freedom, FBI Stats on Weed Arrests & Funding for Smart Research on Realignment

October 30, 2012
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EDITOR’S NOTE: While we keep an eye on the safety and well being of our family and friends...

CDCR • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Realignment

Head of CA Prisons, Matt Cate, Leaving. Choice of Replacement Critical

October 29, 2012
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CDCR Director, Matthew Cate, is leaving his position as head of the California’s prison...

Death Penalty • Education • Immigration & Justice • Innocence

Willingham Family Wants Posthumous Pardon, Gov. Brown and Madeleine Brand Talk Prop 30, and Underground Education

October 29, 2012
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FAMILY OF EXECUTED MAN SEEKS PARDON EIGHT YEARS LATER We are just over a week away from voting on...

Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • Los Angeles County • Probation

DOJ Blinks, Gives County’s Juvie Probation Camps a New 2014 Deadline for Reforms & No Consent Decree—Despite Discouraging Lack of Progress

October 26, 2012
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LA COUNTY PROBATION CAMPS FAIL (AGAIN) TO MAKE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS, DOJ DOES ZIP TO HOLD...

2012 Election • Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Innocence • Obama • Presidential Race

LA Times Questions Baca’s Immigrant Jailing Policy….The Un-Tapped 10 Percent of Voters (Felons)…& When Bad Science Produces Bad Evidence

October 26, 2012
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LA TIMES SAYS BACA OWES US A BETTER EXPLANATION ABOUT HIS JAILING OF IMMIGRANTS Thursday’s LA...

Bears and Alligators • Charlie Beck • Crime and Punishment • Immigration & Justice • Juvenile Justice • LAPD • LASD • Wolves

Girls in the Juvenile Justice System, LAPD Chief’s Immigrant Strategies, Banning Puppy Mills, and More

October 25, 2012
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HELPING GIRLS ENTANGLED IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM A new report from the Georgetown Center on...

Death Penalty

Does Prop 34, the Death Penalty Initiative, Have a Chance of Passing?

October 24, 2012
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LET’S HEAR FROM THE POLLS According to the latest CA initiative poll, 42.9% are in favor of...

Education • Health Care • Juvenile Justice • Pretrial Detention/Release • Prison

Economics and Kids’ Brains, Pretrial Successes, and Overpaid Prison Doctors

October 23, 2012
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KIDS’ BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENT Socioeconomic status plays a role in the...

LASD

CLARIFICATION Re: Those LASD Donations & the Promotions Lists

October 22, 2012
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CLEARING UP THE CONFUSION ABOUT THE LASD DONATIONS & the PROMOTIONS LISTS When we originally...

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