EDITOR’S NOTE: Risk assessment systems have been praised as a means of reducing the country’s astronomic prison population and corrections spending by calculating the likelihood that a person will fail to return to court...
Implementation struggles have caused the price of California’s child welfare reform to soar by an...
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has unexpectedly parted ways with his well-regarded...
Several dozen probation officers cheered in support of an individual who called black and Latino...
By Dan Walters, CALmatters Penal Code Section 196, enacted in 1872 when California was the...
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Kaiser Health News Imagine identifying a toxin so potent it could...
The result is "a hostile environment at the station that leads to deputies fearing their fellow...
According to the School Social Work Association of America, schools should have a counselor-student...
Approximately two million Californians are eligible to have old arrests and certain crimes cleared...
Last week, WitnessLA wrote about SB 233, a new bill from Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)...
At around 2:30 p.m. at the Tuesday, March 5, meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of...
The County of Los Angeles and the LA County Board of Supervisors have filed what is called a...
On Wednesday, February 27, the Los Angeles Times published an article describing a sharp increase...
In a hand-delivered letter from LA County Auditor-Controller John Naimo, former LASD deputy Carl...
By Gilien Silsby, USC News The inmates at the maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern...
A new California bill aims to make it possible for formerly incarcerated individuals, thousands of...
A new California bill, AB 680, aims to reduce the criminalization of people suffering from mental...
During my stay in maximum security prisons, my cellmate and I would put quotes, definitions and...
When the news flew around the state that San Francisco Public Defender, Jeff Adachi, 59, had died...
