Op-Ed: With COVID-19 raging, depopulate Los Angeles County jails [Los Angeles Times]
Op-Ed: With COVID-19 raging, depopulate Los Angeles County jails [Los Angeles Times] George Gascón took office last week as the new district attorney for Los Angeles County on a strong reform platform, pledging to repair Los Angeles’ broken criminal legal system. With COVID-19 ravaging California’s correctional facilities, Gascón’s success will be a matter of life and death for thousands of people incarcerated in the nation’s largest jail system. We represent the community organizations Dignity and Power Now and Youth Justice Coalition, along with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patr...