Criminal Justice Journalism in the Public Interest

Trauma

Department of Justice • Education • Foster Care • Juvenile Justice • Kamala Harris • LAUSD • Race & Justice • Trauma

New Bureau of Children’s Justice, the CORRECTIONS Act, $8.3M for Wrongful Death in Jail, and Jefferson High Scheduling Update

February 13, 2015

NEW CALIFORNIA DOJ BUREAU TO TACKLE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, SEX TRAFFICKING, AND OTHER ISSUES FOSTER KIDS...

Foster Care • Juvenile Justice • Mental Illness • Prison • Reentry • Rehabilitation • Right on Crime • Sentencing • Trauma • Violence Prevention

Koch Campaign, Violence Intervention in Hospitals, Mental Illness and Solitary, Legislation Against Over-medicating Foster Kids

February 4, 2015

A FACE FOR THE KOCH BROS’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES, CIVIL FORFEITURE, AND...

Death Penalty • Education • Juvenile Justice • Sentencing • Trauma

Obama Proposes Free Community College…. Should a 19-Year-Old Get the Death Penalty?…Horses Help Traumatized Kids….Pens v. Guns

January 9, 2015

Post by The White House. FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR “ANYONE WILLING TO WORK FOR IT,”...

Gangs • Homeboy Industries • Law Enforcement • Los Angeles County • PTSD • Public Health • Reentry • Trauma • Violence Prevention

The End of Gangs? Uh, No. WLA Discusses This Particular New Contention on KCRW’s Which Way LA?

January 6, 2015

THE END OF GANGS—THAT WASN’T. A story called “The End of Gangs” by veteran...

Foster Care • Innocence • Prison • Rehabilitation • Trauma

Part 4: “Drugging Our Kids,” Compensating Wrongfully Convicted, Rehabilitating CA’s Female Lifers, and WLA on Deadline LA

December 22, 2014

YOLANDA’S STORY: RESCUED BY A GROUP HOME DOCTOR WHO FOUND A DIFFERENT WAY TO TREAT TRAUMA In...

ACLU • Foster Care • LA County Jail • Trauma • Youth at Risk

Part 3: “Drugging Our Kids,” Kindergarteners Carry Stresses to School, Lawsuit on Behalf of Disabled LA Jail Inmates Settled…and More

November 24, 2014

“DRUGGING OUR KIDS” PART 3: A SWEET DEAL BETWEEN FOSTER CARE PRESCRIBING DOCS &...