Raids on Stores, Homes of Sacramento Councilmember Linked to Federal Lawsuit and Human Trafficking Claims
By Crescenzo Vellucci Jr. The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – Federal agents late last week…
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Go Live or Go Home: Cop Watching, Court Watchers and Good Old-Fashioned Journalism
By Susan Bassi In the summer of 2019, while covering a taxpayer waste lawsuit in Judge Brown’s…
Restraining Orders Fail to Protect Family Court Judges and Children as Public Policy Intends
By Susan Bassi and Fred Johnson Judge Lawrence Riff of Los Angeles County Superior Court once told…
Guest Commentary: 39 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year
By Sam McCann Twenty-one people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths…
GUEST COMMENTARY: No, Dollars Do Not Grow on Billionaires – The National ‘Debt’ Panic Debunked
By Mark Dempsey Virtually every week I come across yet another editorial scolding the public about national…
Looking Back: When Shaky Eyewitness Testimony Trumps Alibi Witness Testimony
By Jeffrey Deskovic “Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist…
Judge Overrules Defense Request to Dismiss Complaint in People v. Amilcar ‘Butch’ Ford
Special to the Vanguard Oakland, CA – Alameda County Superior Court Judge James Cramer denied former Alameda…
New York Bail Reform Study Notes No Increase in Recidivism Generally – Though Certain ‘High Risk’ Individuals Showed Increase
By The Vanguard Staff NEW YORK CITY, NY – A study of New York’s 2019/20 bail reform…
Governor and SF Leaders Continue to Push War on Drugs Failed Solutions
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – This week Governor Newsom and San Francisco…
Reformers Praise Los Angeles Cash Bail Reforms
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – This month, the Los Angeles Superior Court…
Suicide of LA Twin Towers Inmate under Investigation – Guards Allegedly Watched Videos during Time of Fatal Incident
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 By Kayla Meraz LOS ANGELES, CA — At Twin…
Report: Statistics Reveal Magnitude and Severity of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
By Annie Rudolph and Melinda Kukaj EASTHAMPTON, MASS – The Prison Policy Initiative this week released a…
VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: The Poverty of Prison Reform
By Dymitri Linus Harszewski After seeing a number of articles in the Vanguard Incarcerated Press about prison…
COURT WATCH: Investigator Pounded on Cross-Examination in Gonzalez Retrial Thursday
WOODLAND, CA – Deputy District Attorney Robin Johnson, and Deputy Public Defender Ron Johnson questioned police Investigator…
ACLU Files Brief Arguing Trump Gag Order Violates First Amendment
By Kapish Kalita and Yana Singhal WASHINGTON, DC – The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) this week…
COURT WATCH: After Being Falsely Charged, Jailed for 5 Months, Man Found Not Guilty after Jury Trial
By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A San Francisco County Superior Court jury Thursday found…
COURT WATCH: Accused Man ‘Kind of’ Turns Self in, Still Sentenced to 2 Years for Violating Probation
By Fatimah Patel MODESTO, CA – For violating the terms of his probation, the accused here in…
COURT WATCH: Gonzalez Murder Retrial Proceeds with New Witness, and Original Trial Testimony of Impeached Witnesses Read to Jury
By Kristin Trent WOODLAND, CA – The Justin Gonzalez jury retrial reconvened here in Yolo County Superior…
Guest Commentary: ‘Overcoming Gangs and Poverty’ – A Comprehensive Exploration of America’s Ongoing Struggles
by Rodney Wrice In the profoundly enlightening pages of Overcoming Gangs and Poverty, I Rodney Wrice the…
Under UN Standards, Some ‘Solitary Confinement’ in California Prisons is ‘Torture’
By The Vanguard Staff SACRAMENTO, CA – The United Nations Standard defines solitary confinement as “the confinement…
