News & Commentary
Apr 05, 2012
Duncan Roy: Director Trapped in Men's Central Jail
LA WEEKLY: Director Duncan Roy casts a courtly image of a baronial figure as he sits in his home atop Las Flores Canyon, a modernist, Bohemian hideaway with a jaw-dropping view of the Pacific. His surroundings project an image of California's creative lifestyle at its most alluring. But in February, Roy found himself standing alone outside Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail, released after three months of harrowing and wrongful incarceration.
By ACLU of Southern California
Apr 04, 2012
Solitary confinement: torture in your backyard
Seeing and hearing prisoners who have experienced prolonged solitary confinement is not easy. The emotional and physical damage done to prisoners held in solitary does not present a pretty picture.
By ACLU of Southern California
Mar 20, 2012
Federal Court Rules Inmates Have Right to Hearings in Person
By ACLU of Southern California
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