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Jun 24, 2023 · Videos smuggled out of LA jails reveal violence, neglect. The brutal 20-minute clip is one of a few dozen graphic videos saved to a thumb drive picked out of the trash by one inmate, and later...
- keri.blakinger@latimes.com
- 1 min
- Staff Writer
- Keri Blakinger
Oct 28, 2013 · CCPOA video of one of the bloodiest riots in California's penal history. February 23, 2000, riot inside Pelican Bay State Prison. Thirty three inmates were stabbed by other inmates, fifteen...
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- Jim Dagenais (Bat Man)
Nov 10, 2023 · In one of six videos made public as part of a court case about jail violence, L.A. County sheriff’s deputies punch an inmate repeatedly in the head. By Keri Blakinger. and Maria L. La Ganga. Nov...
- 1 min
- Keri Blakinger,Maria L. La Ganga
Jul 12, 2022 · The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is facing renewed criticism following a leaked surveillance video showing deputies beating an inmate at the county jail.
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- Melissa Hernandez
- Arnold’s Lift
- A ‘Radical Injunction’ from The Supreme Court
- Pulling Back on Mass Incarceration
- Realignment and Local Crime
- Breaking The Jails
Long before he ran for office, Arnold Schwarzenegger had an interest in prisons and inmate rehabilitation. He felt bodybuilding and fitness could help inmates focus and build character. In a scene from “Pumping Iron,” the 1977 documentary that catapulted Schwarzenegger onto the international stage, you can see him showing off his muscles to federal...
In January 2011, California got a new governor, Democrat Jerry Brown. Previously elected in the 1970s as California’s governor, Brown had just served as state attorney general. As state attorney general, Brown knew the case, Brown v. Plata, well. When asked in 2009 about the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against California, Brown exp...
No other state has made as many radical changes through the ballot box as California. Since Gov. Hiram Johnson helped usher in direct democracy in 1911, voters have, for example, approved a property tax revolt, legalized medical marijuana and banned affirmative action in public sector hiring. And soon after the Supreme Court decision, the voters of...
In his first year in office, Brown and the Legislature faced a huge task. In response to the court’s order, the state came up with its own radical transformation, which came with the typically bureaucratic, slightly Orwellian moniker of “realignment.” In short, the state decided to shift thousands of offenders convicted of nonviolent, non-serious a...
Over the past few years, California has faced what realignment really means. For many local jails, the state’s transformation has caused a host of problems, including a spike in inmate violence and a new, difficult population that is staying longer and longer in lockups designed for short-term stays. In February 2013, for example, a survey conducte...
Feb 18, 2019 · California prisoners released video recordings of two prisoner fights they say were set-up by officials at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California.
Aug 15, 2019 · Eight inmates were hospitalized Wednesday after a riot at a Northern California prison, corrections officials said. Approximately 50 more inmates were being treated for minor injuries by the...
