Alexandra Malek is a Knock LA contributor and photographer with a special interest in critiquing the many failures of our current legal system and assessing potential measures to improve it. She currently takes photos of LA hot spots for Knock LA’s media library.

County-commissioned study finds no negative effects on rearrest rates or failures to appear.

California’s Legislature has a chance to do a lot of good, but with a faltering sense of urgency, they may pass on the opportunity.

Project No New Slaves is bringing awareness to incarcerated labor with a screening of ‘13th.’

State propositions are the middle ground between city and federal policy change. Those results help shape local organizing.

Californians have several opportunities to stand on the right side of history in 2020.

Prop 25 promises to end cash bail, but we’ll wind up with a potentially worse alternative.