WitnessLA is very happy to report that we are a finalist in three categories for this year’s...
Cruel and Unusual: U.S. Sentencing Practices Vs. Everybody Else by Matthew Fleischer
CRUEL & UNUSUAL: U.S. SENTENCING PRACTICES VS. EVERYBODY ELSE by Matthew Fleischer In...
Veteran PTSD Stigma, Homeboy & the Solar Industry, and Twitterature…
VETERANS COME HOME FROM BATTLE TO FACE PTSD STIGMA In honor of Memorial Day–and because...
Bill to Lift Media Ban on Interviewing Inmates, LAUSD Police Still Ticket Too Many Kids, and More…
CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS MAY VOTE TO GIVE MEDIA MORE PRISON ACCESS (IT’S ABOUT TIME) A...
California’s Foster Care Bubble Kids: Will We Help or Abandon Them?
For years we have known that a high percentage of the state’s foster kids who age out of the...
Santa Monica Lions & MT’s Citizens United Knight, and More
DID THEY REALLY HAVE TO SHOOT THIS SANTA MONICA MOUNTAIN. LION? I live in Topanga where we very...
ANATOMY OF A JAILS COMMISSION: Part 1 – A Reluctant Sergeant Testifies
On Monday, May 14, 2012, the members of the Los Angeles County Citizens’ Commission on Jail...
Ex-felon Re-entry Bills, CA Juvie Strikes Still Count, & Cops Snatch Families’ Bail Money
THE SUPREMES SAY CALIFORNIA’S JUVENILE STRIKES COUNT IN ADULT SENTENCING SCOTUS rejected a...
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed–and Why It Still Matters
For a pile of years, my pal, the award-winning Brit investigative journalist, Andrew Gumbel, has...
If LA Wants to Reform Its Pretrial Detention Strategy, Who Would Stand in the Way? by Matthew Fleischer
*** EDITOR’S NOTE: A few years ago, Florida’s largest counties noticed that the...
1st Annual LA Gang Violence Prevention and Intervention Conference, May 21/22.
<—-Click to en-biggen An important 2-day conference to discuss effective and innovative...
It Appears We’ve Executed an Innocent Man…..and LASD Transit Officer Claims Right to Execute Unarmed Man
EDITOR’S NOTE: THE JAILS COMMISSION STORY IS STILL COMING. SO STAY TUNED CARLOS &...
Unmanned LAPD ‘Copters, City Council Votes to Give LAPD Gen Services Cops & Gov. Brown Won’t Close Youth Prisons After All
YES, THE JAILS COMMISSION STORY IS STILL COMING. (COLD-RIDDEN & STILL WRITING.) BUT, IN THE...
Three Former Jail Supervisors Testify About Gangster-like Deputies, Violence at the Jails and Top LASD Management’s Repeated Refusal to Intervene
Post on Monday’s Jail Commission meeting coming shortly. Still writing. EDITOR’S...
CLOSING THE MOST DANGEROUS JAIL: The First Pretrial Releases of LA Jail Inmates Could Possibly Happen Soon – by Matthew Fleischer
EDITOR’S NOTE: On any given day, the biggest chunk of the County’s jail...
LA’s Two Newspapers Emphatically Do Not Endorse Carmen Trutanich for LA’s DA
Kevin Roderick at LA Observed has the gory details of the NOT-Trutanich endorsements in a story...
Four Members of 18th Street Gang Clique Convicted of Charges Relating to the 2007 Killing of 3-Week-Old Baby Boy
On a warm Saturday night in mid-September 2007, a 22-year-old gang member named Giovanni Macedo...
Michelle Alexander and The New Jim Crow—In Compton Thursday Night
Just about the time that POTUS Obama was snarling traffic getting to his starzilla party in Studio...