THE BROAD STROKES On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down an historic ruling stating that...
SCOTUS Rules on Both: Sexual Preditors and LWOP Kids
Two important criminal justice rulings came down from the Supremes today. (More details on both...
Monday’s Must Reads
When LA Times writer Joe Mozingo came to guest lecture at my Annenberg class last fall, he...
Massive Layoffs at Homeboy Industries – UPDATED
For over a year, Father Greg Boyle has been warning that Homeboy Industries was in financial...
Am Interviewing Fr. Greg Boyle Tonight at 7 p.m.
I’m interviewing Father Greg tonight, Thursday, at 7 p.m. at the ALOUD series at the downtown...
Newest Twist in the Alex Sanchez Case: The Daubert Hearing
Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Judge Manuel Real will preside over what is called a Daubert hearing. The...
The Education Reformers: Why Are These People Fighting?
There is a strong push for change in education policy in America. As with the nation, school...
Injunction Stops Teacher Layoffs at 3 LA Middle Schools
In response to a lawsuit filed in February by the ACLU and the Public Counsel Law Center, Los...
Hellhole: Is CA’s High Desert Prison Out of Control?
On Sunday, the Sacramento Bee broke it’s first story in a series detailing its own...
A Quick Favor
Okay, here’s the deal. We could get the entire first LA JUSTICE REPORT investigation funded...
Launching THE LA JUSTICE REPORT
THE PARTNERSHIP Spot.Us and WitnessLA.com have launched an extremely cool new partnership...
Follow the Gang Money: How is LA Using Our $25 Million?
FOLLOW THE GANG MONEY: HOW IS LA USING OUR $25 MILLION? For our first LA JUSTICE REPORT project...
It’s Kagen
While many of us were spending Mother’s Day blissfully ignoring politics and other pesky...
Happy Mom’s Day
Photo by Howard Ruby
Moms in Prison on Mother’s Day
In 1999, Sister Suzanne Jabro took a small delegation of women to Vally State Prison at Chowchilla...
Judicial Activism is in the Eye of the Beholder
WHOSE ORIGINALISM? Many conservatives have long been busy waving around the term “judicial...
Dangerous Jails: The Alarming 2010 ACLU Report
On Wednesday, the ACLU of Southern California issued a report on LA County’s Men’s...
Los Phoenix Suns
Another reason not to boycott Arizona, no matter how much you loath that new law. (If you...