In what appears to be a completely unprecedented action, on Wednesday, March 22, the statewide...
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How the failure to apply the state’s legal guidelines has resulted in unnecessary detentions in the county’s unsafe youth lock-ups
Currently, 243 out of 379 (64%) of the youth in detention in the county’s two juvenile halls are...
Reinventing San Quentin
Criminal justice and rehabilitation experts, crime survivors, and formerly incarcerated people will...
Ridding our nation’s prisons of solitary confinement is far harder than it should be: Part 1 of a 3-part series
“Segregation, isolation, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit," said the UN expert...
Bill Seeks Increased Media Access to Prisons and Incarcerated Interviewees
In 1994, then-California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill giving the state prison system more...
Three LAPD officers shot in Lincoln Heights in stable condition, shooter dead.
At 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted this message: “Following closely...
LA County Probation Chief Gonzales fired by Supervisors, his 2nd in command to take his place
Los Angeles County Probation Chief Adolfo Gonzales was fired by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday...
Op-Ed: We Must Invest in LA’s Justice Involved Youth
Simply put, justice-involved youth need programming in a secure, home-like environment that meets...
Deadly LA Jails and Inconclusive Autopsies
A new report says the coroner's office is misrepresenting the causes of deaths inside LA's jails.
2 Stabbings & 2 drug overdoses at LA juvenile hall, then the county’s Board of Supes asked probation chief to resign
On Monday of this week, the LA County Board of Supervisors asked Probation Chief Adolfo Gonzales to...