INEFFECTIVE BAIL BOND SYSTEM TARGETS POOR Bail in America is a punishment-until-proven-innocent...
Archive - June 2015
Kids, Weapons, and Trauma…Ezell Ford…”Breaking Barriers”…and SF Sheriff Lets More Kids Visit Jailed Parents
STUDY: EXPOSURE TO WEAPONS, VIOLENCE LINKED TO TRAUMA, NEGATIVE OUTCOMES In the US, one-in-four...
Oversight of Jail Inmate Health Care Away Might Be Yanked From LA Sheriff’s Department…& Will the Supes Reconsider the High Ticket Jail Building Plan? – UPDATED
PROBABLE NEW MANAGEMENT FOR LA JAILS’ MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE Los Angeles County is...
The Breaking of Kalief Browder: 1993-2015
In October 2014, The New Yorker ran a shattering story by staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman about a...
Ex-Gang Member’s Life Does a 180 After He Joins Los Ryderz – by Sarah Zahedi
EDITOR’S NOTE: Programs that are effective at helping gang-involved kids and others to...
Bills to Curb Drugging of Foster Kids Clear CA Senate…Veteran’s Court Makes Vets Feel at Home…LA FBI Agent Indicted…and More
PACKAGE OF BILLS TARGETING OVER-DRUGGING OF CA’S FOSTER KIDS MOVES ON TO STATE ASSEMBLY On...
Alleged Abuse at a Boot Camp for LA-Area Kids….Disclosing LA County’s Legal Bills….LAUSD Program Re-Enrolls Kids Exiting Juvie Detention….Fight in Men’s Central Jail
SEVEN KIDS SAY THEY WERE ABUSED DURING A BOOT CAMP PUT ON BY HUNTINGTON PARK AND SOUTH GATE POLICE...
WitnessLA Story Wins New Award for Reporting on Baca, Tanaka & the LASD
The City and Regional Magazine Association, sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism, gave...
LASD Deputy to Donate Liver to Partner….a Misused Federal Sentence Enhancement…and More
LASD DEPUTY FINDS HE IS COMPATIBLE TO DONATE PARTIAL LIVER TO HIS DYING TWIN TOWERS PARTNER On...
CA Senate Approves Bill to Limit Solitary for Locked-Up Kids
BILL TO PUT HUGE LIMITATIONS ON WHEN KIDS CAN BE PUT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT MAKES IT PAST CA...