Midway through their fifth day of deliberation, the jury in the federal bribery and corruption...
Archive - March 2023
New York’s mandatory reporter training wants to have it both ways. That’s an improvement.
I just took New York’s new online mandated reporter training course. It is significantly less...
Can Cash Payments Improve the Health of Pregnant People and Children?
It was like money falling from the sky. Except the city of Los Angeles would be sending it to her...
CA’s Chief Probation Officers call for immediate limited court receivership for LA County’s youth facilities
In what appears to be a completely unprecedented action, on Wednesday, March 22, the statewide...
How the failure to apply the state’s legal guidelines has resulted in unnecessary detentions in the county’s unsafe youth lock-ups
Currently, 243 out of 379 (64%) of the youth in detention in the county’s two juvenile halls are...
Reinventing San Quentin
Criminal justice and rehabilitation experts, crime survivors, and formerly incarcerated people will...
Ridding our nation’s prisons of solitary confinement is far harder than it should be: Part 1 of a 3-part series
“Segregation, isolation, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit," said the UN expert...
Bill Seeks Increased Media Access to Prisons and Incarcerated Interviewees
In 1994, then-California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill giving the state prison system more...
Three LAPD officers shot in Lincoln Heights in stable condition, shooter dead.
At 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted this message: “Following closely...
LA County Probation Chief Gonzales fired by Supervisors, his 2nd in command to take his place
Los Angeles County Probation Chief Adolfo Gonzales was fired by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday...