California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Gov. Jerry Brown Attacks Carmen Trutanich For Flip-Flop On Prison Realignment

Gov. Jerry Brown has weighed in on the race for L.A. city attorney, recording a robocall attacking incumbent Carmen Trutanich for "misleading voters" on the issue of prison realignment. Trutanich supported Brown's realignment plan when he ran for district attorney last year. But now that he's runn ... More >>

Ka Pasasouk, Suspect In Northridge Murders, Lucked Out Of Prison Time, Had Psych Eval

Ka Pasasouk, the man police allege pulled the trigger in last weekend's horrific Northridge quadruple homicide, was released from prison and placed into the hands of local probation officials even though state corrections authorities were concerned enough about his behavior behind bars to subject hi ... More >>

Black Riders Liberation Party's General TACO Visited by Authorities After May Day Rally

Members of the Black Riders Liberation Party, self-described as the Black Panthers for the modern era, say their Watts headquarters was raided by authorities today in retaliation for the group's participation in Tuesday's raucous May Day rallies in L.A. A spokesman for the state parole agency says ... More >>

Californians, Angelenos May Have to Dig Deeper to Pay for Undocumented Immigrants Housed in State Prisons and County Jails

The White House debuted its 2013 fiscal year budget Monday, and buried in the 250-page document is one line item could have big ramifications for L.A. County jails--the federal government slashed funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program by two-thirds compared to the previous year. T ... More >>

Halloween Limits on Riverside County Sex Offenders Unconstitutional, Says L.A. Group

Terry Tyson​Nobody loves a sex offender (except maybe his mom). As such, moves by California and, more recently, Riverside County to limit their participation in Halloween have been met mostly with support if not yawns. But a new, L.A.-based organization, California Reform Sex Offender Laws, ... More >>

Joseph Hyungmin Son of Austin Powers Fame Suspected of Murdering California Prison Cellmate

Joseph Son: Random Task or targeted murder?​In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Joseph Hyungmin Son plays a bad-guy henchman, "Random Task," who can fatally twist the head of a foe like you snap a twig. Maybe he really is that badass in real life, or at least bad. Because Son is b ... More >>

Robbery Inmates Escape on Mulholland Drive: LAPD on The Lookout in Laurel Canyon Area

​Updated at the bottom: California prison officials say the pair has been caught. First posted at 4:38 p.m. on Aug. 5. Cops in the Laurel Canyon area were on the lookout for two jail inmates who escaped while on brush-clearance work detail, according to the LAPD. Officer Sara Faden told the W ... More >>

Life After Life: Decades Behind Bars Can Make You a Better Man (VIDEO)

Luigi Ventura​A man squints in the afternoon sun, taking in a warm breeze on the porch of a meticulously maintained two-story home at the intersection of downtown and South Central. Laughter echoes from the street, an ice cream truck jingles, kids meander home from school. Inside the house, ha ... More >>

California Prison Release no Good For L.A. County, Which Could See 11,000 Convicts, Argues LAPD Union

​The L.A. police union isn't happy with the state's handling of a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce the prison population by about 33,000. Already reports indicate that California could miss a court deadline for kicking off the reductions unless the state legislature comes up with cash so th ... More >>

Andrew Johnson, Gay Prison Guard, Barred From Wearing Uniform in WeHo Pride Parade by Homophobic Dept. of Corrections

TMZAnthony Johnson with superlawyer Gloria Allred​We at the Weekly usually beef with the California Department of Corrections on more budget-related issues like the rich, powerful prison-guard union's ability to twist the state Legislature to its will and preserve bloated benefit packages in a ... More >>

Gabriel Ben Meir: Possible Suspect in MTV Murder Is 35-Year-Old Black Man With Wire Glasses, Gold Jewelry, Shotgun

Los Angeles TimesThe young victim​Update: Destiny Young (see below) was charged today with two counts of murder (one of which was allegedly related to Meir's demise) and five counts of second-degree robbery, the D.A.'s office announced. Jabaar Vincent Thomas and Richard Edward Anderson were hi ... More >>

Arabella Bradford and New BF Murdered by Her Ex-Fiance -- a Former Riverside Prison Guard Who Lived Across the Street

FacebookArabella Bradford's profile picture​A twisted love triangle within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ended with all three players dead Tuesday night. Thirty-eight-year-old Arabella Bradford, a current parole agent in the Riverside department, lived across the ... More >>

Jeremy Marks' Home Searched

Camera-wielding student's mother demands probe of LAPD raid

10,000 Cell Phones Smuggled Into California Prisons in 2010 (BONUS: How You, Too, Can Go Into the Smuggling Biz!)

TIME MagazineA California prison guard chills with some confiscated cell phones​Cell phones and prisons -- just call 'em "jail cells"! -- are a real winning combo. It's the ideal situation for any criminal who can stand to conduct business without the rush of the live hunt: Mobile phone in ha ... More >>

Will Gov. Jerry Brown save money and relieve prison overcrowding by overcrowding county jails?

​Among the many ideas Gov. Jerry Brown apparently has to reduce California's colossal $25 billion-plus deficit, including reductions to state parks and libraries, is to pawn state prisoners off on county jails. That may work in some counties, but it's hardly clear if LA is one of them.

Earl Ellis Green, Man Accused Of Killing Riverside Officer, Could Have Been Kept Behind Bars Until 2012

Riverside Press-EnterpriseEarl Ellis Green could have been behind bars. Instead he was allegedly shooting a cop.​Updated after the jump with a response to Green's arrest from the Los Angeles police union. First posted at 3:09 p.m. The man suspected of killing a Riverside police officer with h ... More >>

Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

LAPD Officers Take Automatic Weapon Fire Near Downtown, Kill A Suspect

​Updated after the jump with alleged shooter's ID, fact that he was a parolee-at-large, and response from the police union. First posted at 6:37 p.m. Tuesday. A person was fatally shot by cops when the suspect in a reportedly stolen car opened fire on police with an AK-47-type rifle, accordin ... More >>

Chere Osmanhodzic Murder Case Inspires LAPD Union To Say We Told You So: Suspect Saw An Early Release Despite Record

Loera.​The union that represents Los Angeles police is fuming over the case of 34-year-old Omar Armando Loera, the man recently named as a suspect in what authorities described as a brutal murder of a bride-to-be in Valley Village. The union is mad because, it states, Loera has a long criminal ... More >>

New California Website Warns Public When Sex Offenders Bolt

Paul Pellerito via Flickr​ A site to warn the public when sex-offender parolees remove GPS ankle monitors has been created by the California Department of Corrections, according to a statement by the department. Member of the public can sign up to get email alerts about the parolee violation ... More >>

LAPD Preparing To Deal With Nearly 6,000 Freed Prisoners In Area

​The Los Angeles Police Department seems to be taking the possibility of a state release of prisoners starting Jan. 25 seriously. California is under a federal order to release 40,000 prisoners, nearly one in four in the state, to relieve overcrowding, and the U.S. Supreme Court this week reje ... More >>

Queer Town: The Unexpected Twists of Gay Marriage

Whenever the accepted norms of society are changed, something unexpected always seems to pop up. With gay marriage in California, this truism of sorts is already starting to play out. According to a report in the Sacramento-based Capitol Weekly, the California Department of Corrections has now give ... More >>

CNN to Interview Former Prison Confidante of Manson Family Member Susan Atkins

Former Beverly Hills matchmaker Virginia Graham told the LA Weekly that she has a date with CNN. CNN contacted Graham after reading, Beverly Hills Matchmaker Spills About Manson Family Member Susan Atkins, she said. Graham’s upcoming interview will likely focus on her prison chat fest with Atkin ... More >>

Beverly Hills Matchmaker Spills about Manson Family Member Susan Atkins

In the summer of 1969, Susan Atkins stabbed to death a pregnant Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion. Later, Atkins told fellow inmate and Beverly Hills matchmaker Virginia Graham that the 26-year-old actress begged for her life and the life of her unborn child. “S ... More >>

Tookie and the Death Penalty

Blue Rage, Black Redemption

Broken Bridges

Did City Hall’s plan to fight gangs bankroll a gangster?

The Scourge of Skid Row

A staph infection threatens the lives of cops, firefighters and homeless people. But don’t expect any help from county health officials

Race Divide

A white gang member is charged with threatening a black student in Pasadena

The Prison King

During “Z” ’s rule, his favorite white inmates got drugs, weapons and the freedom to roam

Who’ll Stop the Reign?

The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

Death Mansion

What’s really behind Gray Davis’ push for a 1,000-bed death row?

Once Is Not Enough

Test Phobias

IQ tests for all San Quentin’s death-row inmates worry attorneys

The Killing Routine

Stephen Wayne Anderson’s final 15 minutes

Crime Pays

. . . the phone company and the state. how inmate calls raise millions for Gray Davis’ budget

Losing Dorothy

If you’re black and poor in L.A., silence still equals death.

Turn the Tide

Walls of Silence

Governor fails test on press access to jails

Straight Time

The Battle for Drug Treatment in California Prisons

Politics of the Macabre

Quiet Tragedies

A roundtable discussion of mental illness