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A new deadly year begins in LA County’s Jails

January 14, 2026
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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 3: the Myth of the Model Inmate

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 2: How discipline plays an outsized role in CA parole decisions

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

December 29, 2025
#NoSafePlace

Is LA County’s women’s jail still an unsafe place for women to be? A new lawsuit says YES

December 28, 2025
Crime and Punishment • Juvenile Justice • LAPD

The Death of Suzie Pena: The Civil Case Begins

July 21, 2009
66 Comments

Suzie Pena was the 19-month old little girl who was killed when her drunk and meth and coked-up...

California Budget

It’s a Deal: California Cuts and Non-Cuts

July 21, 2009
6 Comments

Okay, well the good news, if you can call it that at this point, is that there’s finally a...

Science

Happy Birthday, Moon Landing – July 20, 1969

July 20, 2009
15 Comments

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Onward to Mars. And, yes, for all NASA’s failings...

Science • Social Justice Shorts

Monday’s Social Justice Shorts

July 20, 2009
8 Comments

WELCOME TO SKID ROW’S AMAZING 30N3 STREETBALL LEAGUE LA’s homeless columnist, Walter...

American Voices • Media

“And That’s the Way It is…” Good Night, Dearest Walter. Good Night. UPDATED

July 18, 2009
37 Comments

FEBRUARY 27, 1968 Tonight, back in more familiar surroundings in New York, we’d like to sum...

LAPD

Goodbye, Consent Decree. Here’s Your Hat. Ta-Ta! Don’t Write.

July 18, 2009
10 Comments

After dragging his feet nearly interminably, and saying he needed an extra month to decide, and...

Arresting Alex Sanchez • Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • FBI • Gangs • LAPD

The Arrest of Alex Sanchez: Part 4 – The 2nd Bail Hearing

July 17, 2009
6 Comments

Alex Sanchez had a second bail hearing on Wednesday afternoon. He did not get bail. Nor was he...

Uncategorized

Electricity Out, Posting Before Noon (okay, make that soonish after) – UPDATED

July 16, 2009
16 Comments

This is only a highly personal theory, but I’m convinced that Topanga has more incidents of...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Gangs

Wellness Foundation Has $$$ for Homeboy Industries

July 15, 2009
22 Comments

Tuesday, Julio Marcial, a program director for the California Wellness Foundation, announced that...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Gangs • Homelessness • LAPD

Social Justice Shorts

July 15, 2009
4 Comments

A NEW BAIL HEARING FOR ALEX SANCHEZ TODAY Attorneys have managed to get a second bail hearing for...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice

Sheriff Joe Meets the New Yorker

July 14, 2009
10 Comments

The July 20 New Yorker has a profile of Joe ArpaioRight now, it’s still hidden behind the New...

ACLU • Jail • Sheriff Lee Baca

Budgets, Jail Closings and the ACLU Sues

July 13, 2009
4 Comments

LA County, like the state (and the city of LA) has big budget problems. So to help shrink his...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Civil Liberties • Gangs • Public Health • Social Justice Shorts • Torture

Monday Social Justice Shorts

July 13, 2009
4 Comments

MAYOR’S OFFICE RE-PROMISES THAT $500K TO HOMEBOY…BY SEPTEMBER After reading...

Bears and Alligators • Environment

Minds in the Water – UPDATED

July 13, 2009
16 Comments

Last October, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to wade into the battle over whether then president...

City Government • Gangs

The City’s Gang Report – Part 1

July 10, 2009
18 Comments

Yesterday I complained that the city has not given funds to Homeboy Industries despite the fact ...

Life and Life Only

Having Coffee and Contemplating. Check Back

July 10, 2009
9 Comments

I’ll be posting in a little while (before noon). But for the moment I’m enjoying...

Gangs • LAUSD

Homeboy’s Virtual Carwash……and the Mayor’s Office

July 9, 2009
13 Comments

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Homeboy Industries wants you to get your car...

Uncategorized

A Tale of Greenpeace Climbers, Obama & Mount Rushmore

July 8, 2009
9 Comments

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Okay, just a reminder that there are one or two things in the...

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