In the News

08/13/2019 The LA Times LA County supervisors scrap $1.7 billion contract to replace jail: ‘It’s time to do the right thing’
02/13/2019 The LA Times In Historic Move, LA County Supervisors Vote to Dump New $2.2 Billion Jail Project In Favor of New Mental Health Treatment Center No Longer Overseen by the Sheriff’s Dept.
01/09/2019 The LA Times Plan to create an L.A. County womens’ jail in Lancaster faces serious opposition
10/16/2018 LA Progressive “Policing Our Students” Report Points to New Directions for School Discipline
07/04/2018 Justice Not Jails Million Dollar Hoods: Why L.A. Cages More People Than Any Other City
06/17/2018 Thinking Justice Race, Poverty, and Bail in Los Angeles
05/17/2018 Los Angeles Sentinel Councilmember Harris-Dawson Joins Community Groups to Urge State and Local Officials to End Cash Bail
02/07/2018 AlterNet This City Just Took a Major Step to Reform Its Oppressive and Inhumane Bail System
02/04/2018 The LA Times Huge increase in arrests of homeless in L.A. — but mostly for minor offenses
12/16/2017 KCET Bail Bonds’, ‘The Comeback Kids’ and ‘School of Good Works’
12/15/2017 OHCHR Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
12/08/2017 UCLA UCLA bail study finds price of freedom too high for poor L.A. families
12/07/2017 MintPress News Black Lives and the Tragic Impact of the Cash-Money Bail System
12/07/2017 The Crime Report Los Angeles Study Finds $19 Billion Levied in Money Bail Between 2012-2016
12/06/2017 Vox UCLA report unpacks how cash bail hurts poor people of color
12/05/2017 Witness LA $19.4 Billion Levied Against LAPD Arrestees Over Five Years
12/05/2017 California Endowment The Price of Freedom
12/04/2017 La Opinión Los latinos, los más afectados por el pago de fianzas en Los Ángeles, dice informe
10/20/2017 LA Weekly LAPD Is Arresting Increasing Numbers of Homeless in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
10/16/2017 UCLA Newsroom New leader of Bunche Center at UCLA shines spotlight on justice, employment for African-Americans
11/01/2016 LA Times Community safety means more than guns, badges and crime
10/18/2016 KCRW podcast series Off the Block
9/22/2016 UCLA Newsroom UCLA researchers map the costs of incarceration in Los Angeles