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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
Civil Rights • Courts • Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty • Race • Realignment • Reentry • Supreme Court

New Felon Disenfranchisement Report, SD Drops Reentry Program That Cuts Recidivism, and States to Execute Mentally Disabled

July 13, 2012
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REPORT SAYS FELON DISENFRANCHISEMENT 5 TIMES GREATER THAN IN 1976 The Sentencing Project released...

Bears and Alligators • Criminal Justice • DNA • FBI • Innocence

Protesters Greet Ringling Bros. In LA, FBI’s Largest Review of Forensic Evidence, and…Bears

July 12, 2012
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RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN, BUT NOT WITHOUT MUCH PROTEST FROM ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS With...

ACLU • Courts • Criminal Justice • District Attorney • LA County Jail • LASD

ACLU Lawsuit Says DA’s & LASD’s Evidence Policy May Have Damaged Thousands of Cases

July 11, 2012
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On Tuesday, the ACLU of Southern California, along with a criminal defense law firm and two law...

Jail • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

TESTIMONY ABOUT TACITLY SANCTIONED INMATE ABUSE – by Matt Fleischer

July 10, 2012
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THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF PAUL TANAKA’S HAND-PICKED MAN INSIDE MEN’S CENTRAL JAIL by...

Jail • LA County Jail • LASD

Jail Commission Posts Delayed a Day

July 9, 2012
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Hi, everyone, I’m under the weather, so Matt and I are holding off posting any Jail...

Courts • Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty • Health Care • Immigration & Justice • Sentencing

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Death Row, CA’s “Anti-Arizona Law”…and More

July 9, 2012
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SHOULD DEFENDANTS WITH FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME BE SAFE FROM DEATH PENALTY? Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is...

Jail • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • LASD • Los Angeles County

A Day of F-Bombs, Revelations…Plus Procedural Reports and Future Plans at the Jails Commission

July 7, 2012
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NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS A ONLY BROAD STROKES PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS. A full set of reports...

Jail • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • LASD • Law Enforcement

Much Potential for Dramatic Testimony at Friday’s Jail Commission Meeting – UPDATE

July 6, 2012
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UPDATE; TONIGHT’S PROMISED QUICKIE REPORT WILL APPEAR TOMORROW (SATURDAY) I’ll have...

Civil Rights • Crime and Punishment • LAPD • Race

Fourteen-year-old Murdered While Watching Fireworks, LAPD Didn’t Misappropriate Funds from LAX…and More

July 6, 2012
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LA TEEN FATALLY SHOT DURING 4TH OF JULY FESTIVITIES Fourteen-year-old Unique Russell was gunned...

Crime and Punishment • Life and Life Only • LWOP Kids • Sentencing

1 Big Fireworks Fail, 2 Different Views of LWOP & NOLA’s Struggle With Crime

July 5, 2012
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As may have already seen, for some incomprehensible reason, all the fireworks at the Port of San...

Life and Life Only

Happy Independence Day!

July 4, 2012
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“And crown thy good with brotherhood….” Have a great 4th! PS: And because—whether...

District Attorney • Sentencing

Will Steve Cooley Support November’s 3-Strikes Reform? by Matt Fleischer

July 3, 2012
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STEVE COOLEY AND THE MATTER OF REFORMING 3-STRIKES By Matthew Fleischer No California public...

Courts • DCFS • Foster Care • Los Angeles County

Mean Girl Social Workers Rebuked for Retaliatory Behavior in Foster Care Case

July 3, 2012
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Naysayers have repeatedly asked why Michael Nash, the presiding judge of Los Angeles County’s...

Charlie Beck • Education • Guns • LAPD • LASD • LAUSD • Law Enforcement • Orange County

LAPD Rise in Shootings Vs. Assaults on Officers, OCSD Removes Security Officers’ Off-Duty Powers, and a New ACT Testing Tool

July 3, 2012
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NO CORRELATION BETWEEN RISE IN OFFICER SHOOTINGS AND ASSAULTS ON OFFICERS, SAYS LAPD...

Criminal Justice

The Life, Lies and Eventual Defection of a Police Snitch

July 2, 2012
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In Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, author/journalist Ted Conover has written a...

American Artists • California Budget • Civil Rights • Environment • Juvenile Justice • Reentry

Chaka Khan’s Juvenile Reentry Program, Four State Parks Are Safe for Now…and More

July 2, 2012
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CHAKA KHAN LAUNCHES JUVIE REHABILITATION INITIATIVE “Queen of Funk” Chaka Khan recently...

Art and Culture • California Budget • CDCR • Criminal Justice • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Prison Policy

“Walstock” Protest Saturday, Gov. Brown Signs CDCR Blueprint Plan…and More

June 29, 2012
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TOM MORELLO TO HEADLINE…CHINATOWN WALMART PROTEST? Saturday’s protest against...

Health Care • How Appealing • Supreme Court

ENTIRE HEALTH CARE LAW UPHELD, ROBERTS JOINS LIBERAL MAJORITY

June 28, 2012
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AMAZING. In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has upheld the entire Affordable Health Care Act, with...

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