I have an Op Ed remembrance of my friend LA County Supervising Deputy Probation Officer Mary...
Juvenile Justice
Charging Poor Parents for Lawbreaking Children
Martin Berg at the LA Daily Journal wrote a very good column about the unconscionable idiocy that...
Judges Jail Kids 4 Millions in Kickbacks
This is not a California story, but it is so breathtakingly callous in its lack of regard for the...
FreeLA High Washes Its Way to Graduation
This Saturday, an unusual Los Angeles high school, called FreeLA High, is putting on a car wash...
Suzanna Rising
This is in many ways a victory story. It is about a young woman who, for the purposes of this...
Questioning California’s Maximum Security Adolescents
As more and more bills come due—and not in a good way—from California’s nearly...