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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 • Free Speech • Middle East

C-Sun’s Esha Momeni is Released on Bail….For the Moment – UPDATED

November 11, 2008
16 Comments

Esha Momeni, that 28-year-old Cal State Northridge graduate student who was arrested in Teheran...

Civil Liberties • LGBTQ • Propositions

PROP 8 and Equal Protection

November 10, 2008
25 Comments

The fury and the hurt continues to grow in response to the passage of Proposition 8, and to the...

Elections '08 • Obama • Presidential Race

Dear Barack: Welcome to the Collective Presidency

November 10, 2008
4 Comments

After the networks called the presidential election at 8:01 PST on Tuesday night, before Barack...

Obama

In Praise of Michelle O…..and Her Fashion Choices

November 9, 2008
4 Comments

At the risk of giving the frightening impression that WitnessLA is turning into a social justice...

Environment • Obama

Obama and California Auto Emissions: Sanity’s On the Way

November 9, 2008
3 Comments

The Washington Post reports today that Barack Obama intends to reverse around 200 of the Bush...

Civil Liberties • Civil Rights • Journalism

“Gypsy Crimes,” You Say?

November 9, 2008
10 Comments

The good news is that we have a wonderful new barrier-smashing president. The bad news is that...

Elections '08 • Obama • Presidential Race

DAY THREE: Still Happy (And Not Crying Anywhere Near As Much)

November 7, 2008
21 Comments

But tired, very, very tired. (Who knew that joy and relief could be this...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

The Suddenly Empty Lives of Obama Supporters

November 6, 2008
5 Comments

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are As the transition teams...

Obama • Presidential Race

BARACK OBAMA’S WHITE HOUSE READING LIST – PART 1

November 6, 2008
8 Comments

There will be much to discuss about this election, both on the national and the local level, in the...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

“For that is the true genius of America…that America can change.”

November 5, 2008
24 Comments

History is made. Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and...

Elections '08 • Propositions

Still Hoping For Prop. 8 to be Miraculously Gone by Morning

November 5, 2008
5 Comments

So tell me again why letting other people get married threatens your marriage?

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

ZERO HOUR: Live Blogging Election Night

November 4, 2008
4 Comments

(I’ll be doing it from my blackberry so let’s see how it goes.) Am just approaching...

Elections '08

ALERT: VOTING PROBLEMS

November 4, 2008
4 Comments

Some of my elections monitoring attorney friends are running across some serious voting problems...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

VOTE.

November 4, 2008
15 Comments

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City Government • Elections '08 • LGBTQ • Propositions

Proposition 8: Too Close to Call

November 4, 2008
3 Comments

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Proposition 8 is running very, very close right now. Talk...

Elections '08 • LGBTQ • Propositions

Witness LA Endorsements 2008

November 3, 2008
7 Comments

(It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.) NOTE: THERE’S A VERY SHORT...

Elections '08 • Propositions

THE PROPOSITIONS: Measure R – Alan Mittelstaedt says: YES

November 3, 2008
2 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Nobody I know is better informed on all things transportation-related than...

Elections '08 • Propositions

THE PROPOSITIONS: Prop 9 – Victims’ Rights

November 3, 2008
1 Comment

USC students Kelsey Clark, Steffi Lau, and Maria Niklas wrote about the very confusing Proposition...

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