California Correctional Crisis

So, this happened today: Two guys were arraigned for petty theft charges. Cops showed up and started asking them questions about an unrelate...

Yesterday's Asahi Shimbun reported a drop in support for the death penalty in Japan: In a sign of wavering support for capital punish...

Wonderful news via KPCC: Los Angeles County probation officials reported Thursday that Los Angeles County's jail population is at its ...

Today I attended the Hastings Women's Law Journal symposium Bringing to Light: Invisible Abuses against Women and LGBT People in Priso...

Yesterday's interesting L.A. Times editorial  addresses the plan to build a new jail in Los Angeles, which prison activists have been re...

Conspiracies and evil machinations have been on my mind lately, for a combination of reasons. One of them is that I recently gave a post-pla...