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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
Civil Liberties • LAPD • Torture

RAPE, TORTURE…AND ISOLATION

May 1, 2009
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I’m neck deep in writing and student paper correcting, but here are some quick things to draw...

Civil Liberties • Obama • Torture

“They Tormented a Clerk” – UPDATED

April 30, 2009
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If you read between the lines of Barack Obama’s answer to Jake Tapper’s question about...

Criminal Justice • Gangs

Scenes From Saturday Night With Homeboy Industries

April 30, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> This past Saturday Homeboy Industries held their yearly...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • State Politics

Jerry Gets Jacked (But Has A Soundtrack For It.)

April 30, 2009
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Even though he’s California’s “top cop,” Attorney General Jerry Brown got...

Torture

Cliff May, Jon Stewart & Torture

April 29, 2009
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Part 1 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt...

Civil Liberties • Free Speech • Freedom of Information

Seattle Blogger Wins $225K over Public Records Lagging

April 29, 2009
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The AP reports that King County, Washington has agreed to pay conservative blogger Stefan...

Civil Liberties • Torture

9th Circuit Tells DOJ “Secrets” Claim Not Good Enough

April 28, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> On Monday, the California-located U.S. Ninth Circuit Court...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Los Angeles Times • Pakistan • Public Health • Social Justice Shorts

Social Justice Shorts

April 28, 2009
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THE LA TIMES PULLS PLUG ON PRINTING THE NATION’S BIGGEST NON-PROFIT TEEN NEWSPAPER LA...

Literature & Justice • Los Angeles Times • Media • Writers and Writing

THE FUTURE OF MEDIA: LA Times Book Fest Version

April 27, 2009
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In the middle of the panel called MEDIA: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE at Sunday’s LA Times...

Arts • Media

Electricity Down Leads to Blogging Pause

April 26, 2009
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No, I’m not kidding. The neighbors’ tree took out the power line. Ah, Topanga! There...

Los Angeles Times • Los Angeles Writers • Writers and Writing

LA Times Festival of Books Weekend!

April 24, 2009
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I realize that some people who live in the greater LA area think it’s just fine to do things...

Economy • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry)

Jerry Brown Sues Badly Behaving Banks for $1.5

April 23, 2009
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Okay here’s the full story I mentioned earlier in brief. California Attorney General Jerry...

War on Drugs

Maybe “National Crack the Crack Day” Instead?

April 23, 2009
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Okay, yes, yesterday was Earth Day. But I’m sure you’ll be happy to know, that today...

Civil Liberties

Lies About Torture: Abu Zubaydah’s Interrogator Breaks Silence

April 23, 2009
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Ali Soufan was an FBI supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005 and, together with another FBI...

Social Justice Shorts

Social Justice Shorts

April 23, 2009
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JERRY BROWN SUES A BAD BANK 4 DOING BAD THINGS Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. will hold a...

American Voices • Jail • LASD

DANGEROUS JAILS – PART 3: Common Sense Wanted

April 22, 2009
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Last week I got a call from an inmate who is presently incarcerated at Men’s Central...

Foster Care

DCFS….Dangerous 2 Kids?

April 21, 2009
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The LA Times reports today that records acquired by reporters Garrett Therolf and Kim Christensen...

ACLU • Civil Liberties

Federal Judge Tells FBI to Fork Over Files on Local Muslim Groups

April 21, 2009
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Monday afternoon, federal judge Cormac J. Carney decided he had completely had enough with the...

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