Meet Abel. "Dear Life Support Alliance..."

When I talk with people about what we do, going into prisons to work with the men and women who are ‘residents’ there, I frequently am...

On August 16th I was released on parole...

Hello everyone, David here with some errant thoughts… It’s September 9th, 2022, 3 days after my birthday. We’re fast approaching our...

Every month for the last 12 years I have attended the (usually) 2-day business meeting of the BPH board—the Executive Board Meeting. ...

Our First-In-A-Long-Time Lifer Family Seminar was held on June 18th just weeks ago in Sacramento. It's been a long time but despite...

FINALLY!! After 2-years of CoVid delay, we're able to hold in-person family seminars again! Our first seminar in two years detailed...

A brief blog about AB333, which created Penal Code 1109, and revised Penal Code 186.22: This bill enacted laws that changes the rules for...

SB483 is a bill that was signed into law in 2021, enacting changes to Penal Codes 1171, and 1171.1 (as of 7/1/22, renamed Penal Codes...

SB81 was just signed into law. You can read the text of the new law HERE. It will go into effect on January 1, 2022. This law amends...

I’m a prisoner advocate. I make no excuses for that sometimes unpopular slot, because I believe in what we do. Yes, I’ve been asked many...

See below: I made a lot of edits, updated as current in April 2022 I get a lot of questions about resentencing. How to do it, who...

These are rough and divisive times. For over a decade I’ve promised to tell lifers and their families the straight story, no...

The world will remember 2020 as the year of CoVid, and while certainly CoVid had a major impact on activities at Life Support Alliance, a...

First, full disclosure. I’m not an attorney. Don’t even play one on TV. But I do know a thing or two (or 10 or 20) about parole...

The legislative session is just getting underway, with new bills being introduced. We try to track those that are of particular impact...

Conventional thinking tells us that when a lifer goes to the Board, he/she is hoping to be “found” suitable for parole. Sorry to say, but...

Hello Friends and Neighbors! This is David Once Again!! And here we are at the end of another month of CoVid 19 Drama. How long has it...

In late April an enterprising clinician in the mental health division at one of CDCR’s prisons, noting the problems both caused and...

We’ve been discussing the CoVid situation in the prisons with a variety of individuals in many fields; health care, custody...