On Monday morning, the United States Supreme Court denied former LA County Sheriff Lee...
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In a Devastating Accident, Off-Duty LA County Sheriff’s Detective Was Struck & Killed When Helping A Woman Who had Fallen in the Street
Members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department along with the West Hollywood...
Why Re-Arrest Doesn’t Mean You’re a Failure
The justice system traditionally uses a simple metric to determine whether an individual continues...
Voting After Prison: The Movement in CA and Beyond to End Voter Disenfranchisement
In just two states, Maine and Vermont, people with past felonies can immediately vote upon release...
5 Things to Know as California Starts Screening Children for Toxic Stress
Starting this year, routine pediatric visits for millions of California children could involve...
Nearly 3,400 People With Mental Illness Could Be Safely Diverted From LA County Jail, Says New Report
Approximately 61 percent of the mental health population locked inside Los Angeles County’s...
Controversial Company That Profited From the “Troubled Teen” Industry Now Has Millions from the Feds to Open a Lock-up for Immigrant Kids in Los Angeles
It seems that past allegations of abuse notwithstanding, the feds saw VisionQuest as an ideal...
Op-Ed: DA Lacey Continues to Praise Diversion Over Jail for the Mentally Ill, But Her Prosecutors’ Actions Tell a Different Story
Jackie Lacey’s talk about treatment not cells for the mentally ill is meaningless until she and...
Threatened With $4 Billion in Lost Profit, GEO Group Sues California Over Private Prison Ban
Two days before California’s private prison ban bill, AB 32, took effect on Jan. 1...
A Quick Look At WitnessLA’s Most-Read Stories of 2019 as We Welcome 2020!
As we closed out 2019, we spent some time examining exactly which stories, series, and topics rose...