Due to David’s mother’s illness she was often physically abusive to her children to a...
Op-ed: I’m Letting the Healing Begin By Sharing My Story
By Sheilah Y. Kimble, California Health Report I often quote the Langston Hughes poem...
LA County reorganizes the youth side of probation. So will it help?
Formerly with the CDCR, Guillermo Viera Rosa is now on the job as LA County youth probation's...
Former LASD Deputy Cleared of Criminal Charges in Killing of Andrés Guardado Is Charged by Feds With Falsely Imprisoning a Skateboarder
Miguel Vega, the former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who shot 18-year-old Andrés Guardado...
A California law forced police to release shooting footage. Now videos follow the same script
California law requires law enforcement agencies to release body cam footage of police shootings...
Probation officer is stabbed by a kid at juvenile hall where no one is safe
On Monday night, April 10, at around 10:30 p.m. four of the kids in the Q unit of Los Angeles...
Conditions at LA County’s Jail Intake Center Continue to Violate Judge’s Preliminary Injunction, ACLU Says
New ACLU legal filings show people are still being held beyond 24 hours at the Inmate Reception...
Can Guillermo Viera Rosa transform LA County’s youth probation catastrophe?
As most readers know, in recent months, things have been going from bad to worse at a disturbing...
GOAT: Sheriff Edition
Last July, a 9-year-old decided she didn’t want her pet goat Cedar to become someone’s BBQ....
Policing Bills to Watch This Legislative Season
Starting in March, a handful of important California policing bills hot from the printer landed in...
In a mixed & confusing verdict, jury finds Mark Ridley-Thomas guilty of 7 of the 19 charges in corruption trial, which could mean a lengthy prison term
Midway through their fifth day of deliberation, the jury in the federal bribery and corruption...
New York’s mandatory reporter training wants to have it both ways. That’s an improvement.
I just took New York’s new online mandated reporter training course. It is significantly less...
Can Cash Payments Improve the Health of Pregnant People and Children?
It was like money falling from the sky. Except the city of Los Angeles would be sending it to her...
CA’s Chief Probation Officers call for immediate limited court receivership for LA County’s youth facilities
In what appears to be a completely unprecedented action, on Wednesday, March 22, the statewide...
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...