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DJJ Watch: Governor Newsom to Replace Head of State’s Youth Justice System Chuck Supple. So Who Will Follow?
On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would be replacing the top person at California...
DJJ Watch: Visitor Brings Hidden Cache of Weapons to Stockton Youth Detention Facility
On Saturday, August 10, a 24-year-old man was arrested after attempting to visit one of...
DJJ Watch: Friendly Suggestions for Gov. Gavin Newsom Regarding His Proposed Overhaul of the State’s Youth Justice System
I am a fourth-year social studies teacher at a Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) facility located...
DJJ Watch: An Insider Tells of Officers Leaving Kids’ Skin to Burn With Pepper Spray & Other Everyday Forms of Violence at CA’s Prisons for Kids
Editor’s Note: Earlier this month, during the release of his revised state budget, Governor...
DJJ Watch: Violence, Neglect & Fear Makes Kids Worse Not Better at California’s Division of Juvenile Justice, Says Scathing New Report
"It did not want to make people build their dreams. It did not rehabilitate me, for sure. If...
COVID-19 Arrives at CA’s Department Of Juvenile Justice As A New Report Shines a Light on DJJ’s Chronic Failures
The COVID-19-driven concern about the dangers inherent in congregate facilities like nursing...
Happy Nearly 2022!… And a Request From WitnessLA
Before we leave 2021 behind, we want to quickly remind you of a few of the stories that made up...
As CA’s youth prisons move toward shutdown, conditions for hundreds of kids still in residence have gotten disturbingly worse
In a new report just released by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, researchers describe...
Happy Nearly 2021!… And a Request From WitnessLA
These last twelve months have given us all a year like no other — in Los Angeles and in the...