More than one-third of women in California have experienced domestic violence. For women in prison...
Archive - April 2023
At the LA Times Festival of Books 3 gifted authors talked about foster care & youth justice. Here’s a look at what they said.
Due to David’s mother’s illness she was often physically abusive to her children to a...
Op-ed: I’m Letting the Healing Begin By Sharing My Story
By Sheilah Y. Kimble, California Health Report I often quote the Langston Hughes poem...
LA County reorganizes the youth side of probation. So will it help?
Formerly with the CDCR, Guillermo Viera Rosa is now on the job as LA County youth probation's...
Former LASD Deputy Cleared of Criminal Charges in Killing of Andrés Guardado Is Charged by Feds With Falsely Imprisoning a Skateboarder
Miguel Vega, the former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who shot 18-year-old Andrés Guardado...
A California law forced police to release shooting footage. Now videos follow the same script
California law requires law enforcement agencies to release body cam footage of police shootings...
Probation officer is stabbed by a kid at juvenile hall where no one is safe
On Monday night, April 10, at around 10:30 p.m. four of the kids in the Q unit of Los Angeles...
Conditions at LA County’s Jail Intake Center Continue to Violate Judge’s Preliminary Injunction, ACLU Says
New ACLU legal filings show people are still being held beyond 24 hours at the Inmate Reception...
Can Guillermo Viera Rosa transform LA County’s youth probation catastrophe?
As most readers know, in recent months, things have been going from bad to worse at a disturbing...
GOAT: Sheriff Edition
Last July, a 9-year-old decided she didn’t want her pet goat Cedar to become someone’s BBQ....