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Pregnant and Parenting Foster Kids, Housing Homeless Vets, and a Prison Acting Class
REPORT LOOKS AT CHALLENGES FACED BY FOSTER KIDS WHO ARE PREGNANT OR PARENTS A study by First Place...
Paying for Lawsuits Against the LAPD, Crisis Centers, Parole for Juvie Crimes, and Realignment Savings
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CITY OF LA’S $24 MILLION FALSE CONVICTION SETTLEMENTS On Tuesday...
County Litigation Figures, and LA County and City Approve Big-Ticket Settlements
THE LA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT. SPENT $61 MILLION ON LAWSUITS LAST YEAR LA County spent $118.9...
California Jails’ Inadequate Reproductive Health Services
REPORT SEZ CALIFORNIA JAILS FAIL TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE TO WOMEN, BUT LA...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Newest LA County Probation Audit Finds a Disturbing Array of Problems—Including a $161 Million Hoard of Badly Needed Unspent Cash
As we move forward toward what we hope will be a freshly optimistic and reform-minded era for Los...
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: A Conversation With Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
As we celebrate Dr. King’s day and contemplate all that he accomplished and all that remains to...
Judge Makes Clear That Former Sheriff Lee Baca Is on the Hook for Legal Damages, But Taxpayers Will Likely Pay
As most of you know, a month ago, on December 15, 2015, a federal jury found in favor of 8 working...
So Now That the CA Prison Population Has Dropped, Where Are the $avings?….Big Data & the Art of Protecting LA’s Abused & Neglected Kids….Warren Olney Ends WWLA?
WHERE ARE THOSE PROMISED MILLIONS IN PRISON COST SAVINGS SUPPOSEDLY DESIGNATED FOR RE-ENTRY AND...
Supporting SF Kids With Locked-Up Parents….SF Juvie Probation Looks at Changing Isolation Practices….Victim Services….and More
SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED STUDENTS WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS MAY SOON GET MEANINGFUL SUPPORT IN THEIR...