Sunday, August 30, 2009

Community Justice Center Picks Up

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We now take a break from the State's budget woes - though not entirely, as you'll see - to report on the news at the San Francisco C...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Nixonland Mentality Wins the Day: Assembly Decision a Bitter Disappointment

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Yesterday's Assembly decision, emptying much of the initiative to reform our broken system from its content and neutralizing any healthy...
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BREAKING NEWS: CA Assembly Guts Inmate Release and Sentencing Reform Plan

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Yesterday, the CA Assembly made so many changes to the Senate-approved Governor's plan to release 27,300 inmates and reform sentencing, ...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Relying on Technology: GPS Monitoring of Sex Offenders

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(image courtesy CDCR) Yesterday, the CDCR website featured a press release about the use of GPS monitoring to preclude sex offenders from a...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Police Chiefs Support Decrowding Plan

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(image courtesy City of Pasadena Police Department website) This remarkable statement, by Bernard Melekian, President of the Police Chiefs A...
Friday, August 21, 2009

KPFK interview on Plata/Coleman

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I was on KPFK this morning, speaking about the Plata/Coleman decision and about the recently approved Governor's plan with Roy Urlich on...

State Senate Approves Governor's Plan and Sentencing Commission Bill

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Yesterday, the State Senate approved the Sentencing Commission Bill , by a narrow margin of 21 to 19 voters. The discussion was quite polari...