Gardens Prevent Prison Return, The OC Jacks School Funds, and More
With Taylor Walker GARDENING INMATES LESS LIKELY TO COME BACK TO LOCK UP A growing number of corrections facilities across the US are surprised to find that inmates who participate in gardening...
View ArticleJudge Nixes Baca’s Legal Move to Get ACLU Axed from Class Action Suit….and More
In January of this year, the ACLU of Southern California brought a massive class action suit, known as Rosas v. Baca, against the Sheriff’s Department charging that Sheriff Lee Baca and his top command...
View ArticleR.I.P. Rodney King, the G-Dog Movie, Gov. Christie’s Rich Halfway House Pals...
RODNEY KING: 1965 – 2012 He wasn’t a very strong person, and maybe not even a particularly good person. Certainly he was a man who battled with wounds of the psyche. Nevertheless Rodney King has a...
View ArticleSCOTUS Rules on AZ Immigration and Citizens United…and More
SCOTUS STRIKES DOWN MOST OF ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW The Supreme Court decided Monday in a 5-3 decision that Arizona immigration law does not supersede federal immigration law. SF Gate’s Greg Stohr has...
View ArticleSteinbeck’s Son Joined Effort to Halt Execution of Disabled Man, a New Report...
STEINBECK FAMILY INCENSED BY JUDGE’S REFERENCE TO OF MICE AND MEN DURING EXECUTION RULING Marvin Wilson, a Texas man with an I.Q. of 61 was executed Tuesday after SCOTUS denied him a stay of execution....
View ArticleNew LA Partnership to Leave Zero Tolerance Behind, African American Activist...
LA OFFICIALS TEAM UP TO REFORM SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICY LAPD, LAUSD, LA County Probation, and city officials are finally coming together to change the LA school system’s broken discipline practices. It...
View ArticleBaca Reportedly Hires LASD’s New Head of Custody & New LASD Memo Causes Concern.
BACA HIRES A CUSTODY CHIEF? Sheriff Lee Baca has reportedly chosen Terri McDonald, up until recently the Undersecretary of the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) to be his new Assistant...
View ArticleStanding With Charlie Hebdo
As certainly everyone reading this knows by now, gunmen attacked the offices of well-known French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday morning in Paris, killing 12 people, including the...
View Article4 LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Suspect of Theft and Bribe Taking…CA Poor...
FOUR LA SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT MEMBERS INVESTIGATED FOR THEFT AND BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS Four members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have been relieved of duty without pay pending the...
View Article40,000 Californians Download ACLU App…..Ferguson’s High Priced “Negotiation”...
APPROXIMATELY 40,000 CALIFORNIANS DOWNLOAD THE NEW ACLU MOBILE JUSTICE APP IN 5 DAYS Last month a South Gate, California, woman was filming a police action when a Deputy U.S. Marshall saw her, strode...
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