Criminal
Dec. 17, 2009
Parole Defense, at $185 Per Case
Following DeJon Lewis for a day offers a rare look at the strengths and shortcomings of the little-known parole revocation system, which sends tens of thousands of parolees back to the state's overcrowded prison each year.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
CASTAIC - It was just after 8:30 a.m. on a rainy Tuesday at the Pitchess Detention Center, a jail complex nestled in the hills of northern Los Angeles County.
Attorney DeJon R. Lewis stepped out of his brown Chevy Suburban, the one with the bass fishing bumper stickers on the back window and a rubber bass hanging from the rearview mirror. Draped in a black trench coat, toting clients'...
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