MAKING MONSTERS: A NEW LOOK AT SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Beginning on Tuesday, April 22, PBS’s...
Archive - April 2014
What Does CA’s Use of Juvie Isolation Look Like?…..Stop Locking Up Truant Kids in CA! ….The Lousy State of Education in Juvie Lock-Ups, CA’ s included….North Carolina Sheriff Takes On Wrongful Convictions….Farewell to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING LOOKS HARD AT CA’S JUVIE SOLITARY In addition to the shock...
$$ for Relatives Caring for Kids in the DCFS System, LASD Tightening Use-of-Force Policies & Putting Body Scanners in Jails….LAPD Commission Responds to Vehicle Camera Tampering….and Wolves
EDITORIAL: GIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO RELATIVES CARING FOR CHILDREN IN THE CHILD WELFARE...
LA Times’ Sheriff Stories, Lower Recidivism Rate for Kids on In-Home Probation vs. Probation Camp…and More
TWO NOTEWORTHY LASD-RELATED LA TIMES STORIES The LA Times has two worthwhile sheriff’s...
Sex Trafficked Boys Overlooked as Victims….Trials for Sheriff’s Department Members Indicted for Hiding Federal Informant Schedules for May…..Pulitzers…and More
SEXUALLY TRAFFICKED BOYS ARE SEEN AS VICTIMS LESS OFTEN It is heartening that kids who are involved...
Blue Ribbon Commission’s Foster Care Report…Dysfunction-Plagued $840M State Medical Prison…Judge Orders CA to Limit Pepper Spray & Isolation of Mentally Ill Prisoners…LA News Group Backs McDonnell for Sheriff
CALIFORNIA MEDICAL PRISON STRUGGLING WITH STANDARD INMATE CARE STILL CLOSED TO NEW ADMISSIONS In...
At Least 9 Dead in Crash of LA Student Tour Bus, More Injured
We are heartbroken The LA Times has a team covering updates on the tragic crash. Here’s a...
It’s LA Times Festival of Books Weekend!!!
That glorious time has come ’round again: the LA Time Festival of Books is this weekend! ...
Isolation’s Effects on Kids…LAPD Motorcycle Officer Christopher Cortijo Has Died…Dismantled LAPD Dash-Cam Update…What’s Really Blocking Child Welfare Reform…and a New Prison Overcrowding Compliance Officer
CHILD PSYCHIATRIST SAYS LOCKING KIDS IN SOLITARY IS “THE ULTIMATE MESSAGE THAT WE DON’T...
LA Sheriff’s Debaters Finally Start to Draw Blood…. & More
If we are to judge by the last two debates featuring the men who hope to become the next LA County...