On Saturday, January 29, 2022, an unidentified person managed to enter Los Angeles...
Op-Ed: Tough-on-crime laws and mass incarceration waste tax dollars and don’t make us any safer
Elected prosecutors have been seeking other proactive ways to reform a criminal legal system that...
San Jose, CA, Enacts Nation’s 1st Firearm Insurance Requirement
San Jose, California, has become the first city in the country to require gun owners to have...
Has the LA County Sheriff’s Department gone back to rigged promotions, along with other forms of favoritism & corruption? A new lawsuit says YES.
More than a decade ago, during the corruption-riddled past of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s...
A total of 4 prison staff members have been charged with sexual abuse in a northern CA federal lock-up
This week James Theodore Highhouse, a corrections worker and chaplain, working at FCA Dublin, a...
A call to reform solitary confinement in our nation’s federal prisons
Warehousing COVID sick inmates in solitary means that those who report symptoms are unjustifiably...
As COVID Spikes in CA’s Adult Prisons, COVID cases now triple in youth prisons.
This week we reported on the ongoing COVID spike inside California’s prison facilities, where...
On Monday, Spike in COVID numbers in CA’s prisons produces 2375 new cases, with 1625 of those new cases located in 5 state lock-ups. Two days later the spike went still higher to 3232 with COVID.
In the last few weeks, Americans have watched COVID numbers rise alarmingly as the Omicron variant...
Op-Ed: Meaningful police reform in California starts with training
New Little Hoover Commission report focuses on five ways to improve law enforcement training in...
Pregnant Behind Bars, Part Five: Looking to the Future
At the beginning of this five-part series, we looked at the statistics and history of incarcerating...
Happy Nearly 2022!… And a Request From WitnessLA
Before we leave 2021 behind, we want to quickly remind you of a few of the stories that made up...
Human rights and safety violations reported at two healthcare facilities in California’s prison system
WitnessLA has learned that what are described as “gross safety violations” regarding vaccine...
Thinking of Joan Didion: Dec. 5, 1934 – Dec. 23, 2021
I noticed I was kind of hugging the book, as a child might a stuffed animal, as if the physical...
Pregnant Behind Bars, Part Four: The Mothers
This is the fourth part of WitnessLA’s five-part series about Los Angeles County’s special...
California tries a new approach for domestic violence survivors who are afraid to call the police
The last time Liz Zambrano’s ex-husband tried to hurt her, she knew she somehow had to get...
No Permit, No Problem: Still More States Allow Residents to Carry a Hidden Gun.
“We have a human right to self-defense,” said gun rights advocate Nik Clark. “To say that you...
As SCOTUS contemplates shooting down Roe, a new report shines a light on what reproductive “choice” looks like in the nation’s prisons and jails
During the nearly five decades that Roe v. Wade has been considered to be settled law, the courts...
LASD whistleblower files lawsuit for retaliation. Her husband Eric Strong, candidate for LA County Sheriff, says the attack is personal.
On Tuesday morning, Lt. Sidra Sherrod-Strong, who has been a member of the Los Angeles County...