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Mar 2010

L.A. County jails releasing some inmates early

Los Angeles County is so broke that the sheriff is cutting costs by releasing hundreds of inmates from county jails early. Over the past three months, more than 350 inmates from the nation's largest county jail have been handed what...

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Mar 2010

California finds that prison costs aren't so easy to cut

The billions of dollars that California pours into its troubled prisons - a number fattened by court-ordered medical spending and sky-high personnel costs - have become an increasingly attractive target for leaders desperate to trim the...

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Mar 2010

Multi-pronged review of troubled Probation Department ordered

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday ordered a thorough vetting of the troubled Probation Department, including written reviews of the agency's $700-million budget, internal affairs investigations and schools. "The...

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Mar 2010

LAPD says it trains officers how to deal with autistic people

Los Angeles Police officials say they began providing training on how to deal with people with autism long before two officers shot and killed an autistic man over the weekend. LAPD officials say they began working with the Autism Society...