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03/19/2015

DES MOINES, Iowa - A brawl at a metro bail bonds office Monday ended with a gun being pulled, a high speed police chase, and a suspect still on the loose. The drama started at Dave Ellis Always A...

01/15/2015

http://www.hometownstation.com/santa-clarita-news/crime/bail-bonds/santa-clarita-bail-bonds-how-proposition-47-has-impacted-criminal-justice-118669

01/08/2015

Kill me now.

A Massachusetts man convinced a judge he wouldn’t be a flight risk by offering to post his new Air Jordans as bail.

11/06/2014

Los Angeles County Public Defender Ron Brown walked into a Pomona court Wednesday and saw first-hand the impact of Proposition 47 — the voter-approved initiative that reduces penalties for drug possession and other nonviolent crimes.

01/17/2014

The Bank of Baca.

Los Angeles County sheriff's officials inappropriately kept more than $1 million belonging to county inmates in a two-year period, an audit released Thursday found.

01/15/2014

http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-brown-plans-to-ramp-up-spending-on-private-prisons-20140115,0,4573962.story

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown plans to increase California's use of private prison cells and leases with local jails even if federal judges agree to give the state more time to meet crowding limits within its own lockups, his budget documents show.

01/07/2014

No tears here. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Sheriff-Baca-Expected-Announce-Retirement-Sources-239003811.html

Embattled Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is expected to announce Tuesday that he will not run for a fifth term as the county's top cop and step down from his post by the end of the month, sources...

08/25/2013

The new industry. Non religious halfway houses.

An atheist parolee who was sent back to prison after he balked at participating in a religious-oriented drug treatment program must receive monetary compensation, a federal appellate court ruled Friday.

08/20/2013

http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/08/20/38800/realignment-forcing-lapd-to-shift-resources-chief/

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck says the state's prison realignment program, AB 109, is costing his department $18.1 million this year. Read the full report.

08/06/2013

Torrance PD has made a video about the effects of AB 109 (prison realignment) has on local police departments.

The Torrance Police Department is taking a proactive approach to the effects Assembly Bill 109 will likely have on our community. Please watch this short documentary to help eduacte yourself on ...

08/01/2013

It's a mess.

Many mistakenly believe that bail is something discussed only in a courtroom with a judge. And while judges are responsible for setting bail schedules county by county, and for presiding over bail hearings, pretrial release decisions involving bail are more and more often being made by a sheriff's d...

07/17/2013

Do it!

Concerned that federal authorities could soon intervene in the operation of Los Angeles County's outdated jail system, the Board of Supervisors took a significant step Tuesday toward replacing the Men's Central Jail and renovating other facilities to reduce crowding and increase mental health servic...