On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to consider establishing...
Archive - October 2017
Governor Brown Signs and Vetoes the Last of Nearly 1000 Bills This Legislative Session
In the handful of days leading up to Sunday’s final deadline, Governor Jerry Brown signed...
Using Arts As a Key Strategy to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
EDITOR’S NOTE: When a kid in a Los Angeles County juvenile probation camp opened up about the...
New Report Shows Number of Kids Transferred to Adult Court Has Dropped Dramatically Due to New Laws—But There is Also Some Bad News
In 2019, when new laws passed by New York and North Carolina that raise the age for automatic...
Governor Brown Signs Pile of Criminal Justice Bills as Deadline Nears
On Wednesday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a cluster of criminal justice bills, including...
US Sen. Responds to “Epidemic” of Missing and Murdered Native Women With New Bill
Savanna’s Act, a bill introduced this month by US Senator Heidi Heitkamp, aims to address the...
Several Kids Reportedly Kept in Solitary Conditions for Days at LA County’s Largest Juvenile Hall
Did days of solitary confinement replace “Hope” for a group of kids at LA’s...
Study Reveals More Than Four Out of Five Kids Supervised by LA County Probation Had Contact With the Child Welfare System
The population of youth in Los Angeles County’s probation camps who have had contact with the...
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! New, Important Story Coming – Updated
We’re working on a juvenile justice story that you won’t want to miss, so watch this...
8 Counties Advance in MacArthur Foundation Safety & Justice Challenge, LA Among Them
by Dave Nyczepir Eight counties are implementing two-year plans for jail reform that will end their...