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Probation
Chief of Troubled LA County Probation Hires 2 for Top Spots & Promises "Culture of Change"
Los Angeles County Probation Chief, Jerry Powers, has hired two talented outsiders to help him...
Juvie Lock-up Alternatives, Youth Crime Rate Record Low, and SCOTUS Considers Drug-Sniffing Dogs
REFORMING JUVENILE DETENTION Georgia’s Judge Steven Teske explains how he came to see that...
DOJ Blinks, Gives County’s Juvie Probation Camps a New 2014 Deadline for Reforms & No Consent Decree—Despite Discouraging Lack of Progress
LA COUNTY PROBATION CAMPS FAIL (AGAIN) TO MAKE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS, DOJ DOES ZIP TO HOLD...
Al Jazeera Reports on THE “School to Prison Pipeline,” & KQED Continues Its Realignment Series
THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE—DOES IT EXIST? AND, IF SO, WHAT CAN BE DONE IT ABOUT IT? I...
SCOTUS DNA Ruling, Clean Slate Day for Probationers, and More on the Life and Death of Rodney King
SCOTUS UPHOLDS CONVICTION OF MAN QUESTIONING DNA RELIABILITY The Supreme Court ruled Monday that...