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Criminal justice reform had some bipartisan appeal back then.

Even more importantly, it had big-money backing: The Koch brothers’ political machine threw its weight behind a handful of criminal justice reform proposals.

ICE detention was an even quieter business than criminal lockup, its detainees more transitory, with fewer rights than those in the criminal justice system.

That didn’t happen until the passage of a well-meaning statewide criminal justice reform effort.

A Westside lawyer, who used the promise of criminal justice reform to sign up thousands of inmate clients, has agreed to be disbarred for misleading prisoners and their families about their chances for release.