Last month, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice released a report exposing troubling...
Archive - March 2019
Impact Justice Launches First-Ever Comprehensive Study on U.S. Prison Food
Researchers at Impact Justice have launched a first-of-its-kind study on prison food in the U.S...
Report Offers Insights for Trading Juvenile Incarceration for Community-Based Strategies
Over the last 20 years, youth violence dropped precipitously (and unexpectedly) in California. Law...
Fed Up With Probation’s Ongoing Failure to Spend Juvenile Justice $ Millions on Proven Programs for LA County’s Kids, the Supes Make a Radical Move
On Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a new...
Celebrating Cesar Chávez
"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...
Johns Hopkins Report Offers First Ever Look at Pregnancy in Prison Stats
Since 1980 the incarceration of women in the U.S. has far outpaced that of men, skyrocketing by...
For Foster Youth in Crisis, Advocates Seek Another Option Besides 911
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report Foster parents often have trouble getting prompt...
Op-Ed: Predictive Algorithms in the Justice System Must Have Aggressive Oversight
EDITOR’S NOTE: Risk assessment systems have been praised as a means of reducing the...
California’s Child Welfare Reform Threatened by Slow Pace of Caregiver Approval and Group Homes
Implementation struggles have caused the price of California’s child welfare reform to soar by an...
LA Sheriff Villanueva Abruptly Fires the LASD’s Second-In-Command, Respected Undersheriff Ray Leyva
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has unexpectedly parted ways with his well-regarded...