By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO – Tyrell Cousins tried to buy his escape when he fled from police last May, but his money wasn’t good enough and he was arrested, after...
A district court judge who issued a temporary restraining order in the case said jail officials had not ‘imposed even the most basic safety measures recommended by health...
Having watched the discussion earlier on the Respite Center, we see two very distinct points of view in this community on the homeless and mentally ill. You see those who...
Early this week, the media reported on a strange case where the LA Sheriff, Alex Villanueva, citing video evidence, alleged that inmates at the Los Angeles jail were inte...
By Linh Nguyen and Murcel Rahimi On May 14, the Supreme Court denied two Texas incarcerees’ request for a reinstatement of a trial judge’s order instructing corrections o...
Road Rage Incident Leads to Assault/Stabbing Charge By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO – In-custody defendant Xavier Alston plead no contest to an assault charge on a vic...
We are in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. On one side is the illness impacting many in this community and this country. On the other side is an economic crisis which...
Cindy Pickett was elected only about 18 months ago, but on Thursday on Facebook and Twitter she announced she had accepted a position as DePaul University’s Associate Pro...
Last week we learned that the city of Davis was now facing over a $20 million budget shortfall. This week, the news if anything is worse statewide, as the state is force...
By Joe Bolte The Aggie Research Campus SEIR forecasts that travel to the site will be overwhelmingly by car. It includes an unsustainable transportation plan that focuses...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – When will “live” – as opposed to “virtual” live-streamed-on-Zoom – hearings, including trials, resume...
By Michal David and Shahar Zaken JIMENA’s response to the California Ethnic Studies model curriculum brings up much-needed criticism of the essentialism and orientalism t...
By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI — Despite the fact that many states postponed lethal injections amid the coronavirus pandemic, Missouri is maintaining their scheduled execu...
By Metyia Phillips The Sentencing Project recently hosted a Zoom talk about current COVID-19 decarceration strategies used across the nation, ranging from mobilizing jail...
By Lea Barrios SACRAMENTO- During remote arraignments here in Sacramento County Superior Court Thursday, three out of four cases were for domestic violence. Two men alleg...
Wednesday night’s Planning Commission meeting was truncated before it even started, as three members, citing advice from the city attorney, recused themselves due to pote...
by David Greenwald Data rather than anecdotes should be driving public policy decisions during this COVID-19 crisis. And yet, what we have seen from the Yolo County Dist...
With challenger George Gascón headed to a runoff against incumbent Jackie Lacey in November in LA’s District Attorney race, the discussion is ramping up on what the DA’s...
By Brett Maresca On behalf of the Davis Downtown Business Association/ Davis Downtown, representing over 700 businesses and community leaders in our city, we’re wri...
One of the alternatives to incarceration that has emerged in the criminal justice system is a restorative justice approach. “Knowing that justice is not achieved merely p...