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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
Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Los Angeles County • OIR • Sheriff Lee Baca

Final Jail Commission Meeting Friday & Office of Independent Review Releases 10th Annual Report

September 7, 2012
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LAST JAIL COMMISSION MEETING ON FRIDAY AT 9:15 AM—NEXT UP, THE COMMISSIONS REPORT IN...

2012 Election • California Budget

Democrats and Republicans on Criminal Justice Policy, CA Corrections Spending Vs. Higher Education…and More

September 7, 2012
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THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC COMPARISON ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY While the Democratic and...

Homelessness • How Appealing • LAPD • Life and Life Only

It Turns Out the Skid Row Homeless Have 4th Amendment Rights Too….and More

September 6, 2012
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9TH CIRCUIT PANEL SEZ THE LAPD CANNOT SNATCH AND TRASH PROPERTY OF LA’S HOMELESS Okay, yes...

Civil Rights • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Free Speech • LAPD • LAUSD • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

New LA Partnership to Leave Zero Tolerance Behind, African American Activist Says There’s More to Alesia Thomas Story…and More

September 5, 2012
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LA OFFICIALS TEAM UP TO REFORM SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICY LAPD, LAUSD, LA County Probation, and city...

American Artists • American Voices • Crime and Punishment • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Immigration & Justice • LAPD • LASD • Realignment • Sheriff Lee Baca • Supreme Court • Writers and Writing

The NY Times on CA’s Trust Act, the Fiscal Incentives for ICE Enforcement….the MacDonald Murders… and More

September 4, 2012
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THE NY TIMES SAYS JERRY BROWN SHOULD SIGN THE CALIFORNIA TRUST ACT The Trust Act is one of the...

ACLU • Charlie Beck • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Education • Immigration & Justice • Juvenile Justice • LAPD

LA Co. Juvie Probation Camp Raises Education Bar, Santa Clara Sheriff Urges Gov. Jerry to Sign TRUST Act, and LAPD Chief Beck Addresses Use of Force Problems

August 31, 2012
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LA COUNTY’S LARGEST YOUTH PROBATION CAMP SEES MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS ON FORMERLY APPALLING...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Juvenile Justice • LWOP Kids

Will Gov. Jerry Cave to Political Pressure & Veto SB9, the Juvie LWOP Bill?

August 30, 2012
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Is Jerry Brown really considering vetoing SB9, the bill that would give some of those sentenced as...

2012 Election • Homeboy Industries • Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • Prison

Update On the Fate of LA Juvenile Probation’s Sports Program, GOP Platform Calls for More Inmate Rehabilitation…and More

August 30, 2012
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LA SUPERVISORS DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF CAMP KILPATRICK’S SPORTS PROGRAM There are concerns that...

Anatomy of the Jails Commission • Jail • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

ANATOMY OF A JAILS COMMISSION: Part 5 – Revisiting the Testimony of Undersheriff Paul Tanaka

August 29, 2012
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Tanaka’s testimony may not have provided the commission members with the answers they hoped to...

California Supreme Court • Criminal Justice • Death Penalty • Marijuana Laws • PTSD • Sentencing • War on Drugs

The Push to Make PTSD a Qualifier for OR Medical Marijuana, the Dangers of Being a Confidential Informant in the War on Drugs…and More

August 28, 2012
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VETERANS’ PTSD NOT YET A QUALIFIER FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE Right now, Oregon veterans...

FBI • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • LAPD • LASD • Prison Policy • Sheriff Lee Baca • Solitary

Fed Subpoena May Pertain to Tanaka “Work the Gray” Incident, a Well-liked LAPD Deputy Chief Retires, & More on Solitary Confinement

August 27, 2012
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ARE THE FEDS EXAMINING ONE OF THE UNDERSHERIFF’S INMFAMOUS “WORK THE GRAY”...

Life and Life Only

The Right Stuff: Neil Armstrong R.I.P. 1930 – 2012

August 25, 2012
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He was shy, a geeky engineer type who had none of the charisma of, say, John Glenn, the all...

Immigration & Justice • Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Los Angeles County • Realignment • Sheriff Lee Baca

Why Won’t Lee Baca Release All the Records on LA’s Costly Participation in “Secure Communities?”

August 24, 2012
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THE MYSTERY OF SHERIFF LEE BACA’S STUBBORN SECRECY AROUND LA’S COSTLY SECURE...

District Attorney • Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Realignment • Reentry • Sheriff Lee Baca • Uncategorized

LA’s D.A. Steve Cooley and SF’s D.A. George Gascon Square Off About Realignment, 3- Strikes Reform, & the Death Penality

August 24, 2012
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Today, Friday, KQED together with the Center for Investigative Reporting wraps up their excellent...

Juvenile Justice • LAPD • LAPPL • LWOP Kids

The LAPD Union Reads WLA & Changes its Tune on SB9—At Least a Little

August 23, 2012
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No. The LAPPL leadership isn’t suddenly clasping SB 9—the Juvie LWOP reform...

Education • Jail • Juvenile Justice • LA County Jail • Probation • Realignment

Al Jazeera Reports on THE “School to Prison Pipeline,” & KQED Continues Its Realignment Series

August 23, 2012
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THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE—DOES IT EXIST? AND, IF SO, WHAT CAN BE DONE IT ABOUT IT? I...

Juvenile Justice • LAPD • LAPPL • LWOP Kids • Sentencing

LAPD Union Uses False Claims to Urge Brown Not to Sign the Juvie LWOP Bill

August 22, 2012
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On Tuesday evening the LAPPL—the LAPD’s Union—sent around a falsehood-ridden...

CDCR • Criminal Justice • LAPD • Realignment • Reentry

Skateboarding Youth Victim of Alleged LAPD Brutality, Mental Health and Realignment, and a Bill to Ban Hunting Bears and Bobcats with Hounds

August 22, 2012
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