Today, Friday, Festival of Books weekend begins with the LA Times Book Awards tonight, followed by...
Levon Helm: 1940 – 2012. Godspeed.
To paraphrase what was once written about Raymond Chandler, Levon Helm sang as if pain hurt and...
Juvenile Justice Cuts, Death Penalty Deterrence, The Controversial LA Times Photos….& More
by Taylor Walker IS DEATH PENALTY A DETERRENT? More than three decades after the moratorium...
LA Probation Officers Stop Jobless Kids From Working at Homeboy Industries
WHY HAVE SOME JUVIE PROBATION OFFICERS BANNED HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES? by Matthew Fleischer On first...
Probation Dept. Is Asked for Solutions to Its Realignment Problems, Comes Back with Nada to Speak of
Earlier this month, the LA County Supervisors passed a motion authored by Supervisor Mark...
Disasterously Faulty Forensics, Shuttered Courts and Bad Sentencing
by Taylor Walker DID A DECADE OF FAULTY FBI FORENSICS RESULT IN HUNDREDS OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS...
New Prison Phone Strategy, Death Row Guy Attorney… & No Fiction Pulitzer
With Taylor Walker NEW UMBRELLA PHONE TECHNOLOGY WILL BLOCK CELL PHONE CALLS FROM PRISON SAYS...
On The Young Turks Network Show – the Point…Talking Death Penality
NOTE: I don’t know why the video vanished between last night and this morning. I”m at...
Monday Must Reads: The LAPD Makes an Enlightened Move, SCOTUS Deals With Cocaine…& More
by Celeste Fremon and Taylor Walker LAPD SAYS IT WILL HAVE SEPARATE AREA FOR TRANSGENDERED INMATES...
Must Reads: Cop Mini-Cams, LWOP by Another Name & More
by Taylor Walker & Celeste Fremon WILL SAN JOSE COPS WEAR MINI-CAMS FOR WATCH-DOGGING...
Will the James Austin Jails Plan Suffer the Fate of the Vera Report Before It?
JAMES AUSTIN PLAN…MEET THE VERA REPORT by Matthew Fleischer The mood outside of the Los...
Thursday Must Reads: CA Juvie Facilites, an ICE Dention Dependant Town …& More
by Taylor Walker TO CLOSE OR NOT TO CLOSE CA’S COSTLY JUVENILE PROGRAMS? SF...
THE MANHATTAN BEACH 18: Should a Misdemeanor Arrest Mean You Must be Publicly Shamed?
Since the news described in the following story broke, we have been bothered by the seemingly...
Sheriff Baca Signs on (Cautiously) to Consider Innovative Austin Report Detailing How to Close Men’s Central Jail – UPDATED
Since last fall Sheriff Lee Baca has insisted to the LA County Board of Supervisors that the county...
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Tuesday Must Reads: Same Sex Divorce, Loving or Hating LAUSD’s Deasy…& More
by Taylor Walker CAN MARRIED GAYS DIVORCE IN NON-GAY MARRIAGE STATES? Washington Post’s...
INTERVIEWING BACA: WLA’s Dave Lynn Talks to KPPC’s Frank Stoltze Re: the Challenges of Profiling an Embattled Sheriff
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’d known from chatting with KPPC’s Frank Stoltze at this or that...
Monday’s Must Reads: Death Penalty Conversions, the Problem With “Defiance” & More
by Taylor Walker CHANGING THEIR MINDS ON THE DEATH PENALTY Two champions of California’s...