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#DangerousJails

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
Economy • State Government • State Politics

California on the Chopping Block: Is There A Way Out?

May 28, 2009
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Is it me? Or does Arnold Schwarzenegger sound really vengeful? I get the feeling that, after last...

Crime and Punishment • Gangs

Jesse James Hollywood

May 28, 2009
6 Comments

Nine years after the crime, on May 15, the trial finally commenced for SF valley boy and baby thug...

Immigration & Justice • War

The Iraq War Diaspora Struggles in So Cal

May 28, 2009
2 Comments

“About 4 million Iraqis, forced to flee their homes after death threats and bombings, have...

Civil Rights • Courts • LGBTQ • Supreme Court

Ted, David, Sheila…and Prop 8

May 27, 2009
18 Comments

The decision has been handed down, the protests have begun, but one surprisingly cool thing has...

Obama • Supreme Court

Sonia Sotomayor!

May 26, 2009
33 Comments

AND WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT OF SUPREME COURTS… ” A rigorous intellect, a...

Civil Rights • Courts • LGBTQ

Prop 8: Waiting for the Supremes – THE DECISION’S IN

May 26, 2009
20 Comments

UPDATE: THE RULING: PROP. 8 UPHELD Very, very sad. But very expected. COUPLES EXISTING MARRIAGE...

Life and Life Only

Happy Memorial Day 2009

May 25, 2009
10 Comments

For our fallen sons and daughters—and for the mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children...

American Artists • LGBTQ • Life and Life Only • Media • National Politics • Obama

Is American Idol Braver Than Barack Obama?

May 24, 2009
8 Comments

a2 fin @ Yahoo! Video When American Idol creator, Simon Fuller, chose the song for finalist Adam...

LAUSD

BREAKING NEWS: STUDENT WALKOUT–SCROLL DOWN

May 22, 2009
1 Comment

Bill Bratton • LAPD • Media

Bill Bratton v. The LA Weekly?

May 22, 2009
40 Comments

Late yesterday afternoon, I got a note from a couple of staffers at the LA Weekly that read: ...

Economy • Education • LAUSD

Student Storm Swirling at Santee? – UPDATED

May 22, 2009
2 Comments

(SCROLL DOWN FOR THIS MORNING’S BREAKING NEWS UPDATE) Stellar USC grad student, Emily Henry...

LA County Jail • LASD

Dangerous Jails – Part 6 – What Really Happened to Henry?

May 21, 2009
7 Comments

When we last left 59-year-old Henry Reid, (the former director of UCLA’s Willed Body Parts...

Uncategorized

Maybe California isn’t Ungovernable…Just Ungoverned.

May 21, 2009
11 Comments

The LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzick has a an angry and interesting column in today’s...

Media • Social Justice Shorts

Social Justice Shorts

May 20, 2009
6 Comments

WILL OBAMA LET TROY DAVIS BE EXECUTED? Tuesday’s London Telegraph says Barack Obama may have...

Elections

Those Horrid Ballot Measures: It’s Over

May 20, 2009
1 Comment

Just at midnight, Sec. of State Debra Bowen tweeted that 76.1% of the votes were in and counted...

Elections

1A-1F….Those Annoying 6 Ballot Measures, Part 2

May 19, 2009
20 Comments

YES, THESE ARE ACTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS Okay, well, they are reasonably recommend-ish anyway, Or at...

Elections

1A-1F….Those Annoying 6 Ballot Measures, Part 1

May 18, 2009
8 Comments

Okay, very late tonight I may, or may not, have actual recommendations on those six pesky ballot...

LA County Jail

Dangerous Jails – Part 5: Should Punishment = Peril?

May 18, 2009
4 Comments

How do you know if an incarcerated family member is really in danger? With all the ominous tales...

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