Both the Christopher and the Kolts Commissions made good use of public hearings in creating their...
Louisiana Prison Capital of the World, Brian Banks Exonerated, and more…
LOUISIANA LEADS THE WORLD IN INCARCERATION RATES Louisiana has more people behind bars per...
For All Our Service People, Present and Past, With Gratitude
Above is Karl Marlantes, the author of the excellent Vietnam novel, Matterhorn and, more recently...
WitnessLA is a Finalist for Three LA Press Club Awards
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...