It is Jan. 2, 2021, and more than 10,000 people in Los Angeles County who were alive at the start of 2020 are now dead because of COVID-19. With heavy hearts and some hope for 2021, let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion. But 2020 was such a calamitous 12 months that 2021 will almost certainly be remembered by how different or similar it was to 2020. The editorial board welcomes Gov. Those reforms, which include doing away with almost all enhancements that add years to prison terms, are an important part of efforts to bring sanity to sentencing and end overcrowding in jails and prisons, says the editorial board.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 02, 2021 12:02 UTC