Counties dilemma: how to use funds for inmates San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 2011
How an electoral tweak is throwing California lobbyists into disarray KALW News, December 1, 2011
Blog Dec 1, 2011
Is Wall Street a gang? Part III
As the “Occupy Wall Street” movement continues all across the country it seems to me to be increasingly important to bring to the forefront the horrific crimes perpetrated by corporations and their representatives. The extent of their criminality was partly documented in the first two parts of this series. I say “partly” for a good reason: there are more examples and the examples go back more than a hundred years. The extent of corporate crime was noted in a now classic study by Edwin…
Who decides in Sacramento?
Announcing the release of CJCJ’s latest report on California’s special interest groups and criminal justice policy, Sacramento’s K‑Street Lobbyists: The criminal justice inner circle . The investigative report authored by Senior Fellow at Demos, Sasha Abramsky includes interviews with prominent lobbyists such as John Lovell, and CCPOA’s Ryan Sherman to find out what drives criminal justice policy in California. “You build up your rolodex,” he says, “you get face and name recognition…