ACLU LAWSUIT AGAINST FRESNO SAYS POOR DEFENDANTS GO WITHOUT ADEQUATE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FROM...
Former LASD Deputy Accuses Feds of Editing Testimony to Get Conviction
DID EDITED TESTIMONY MAKE A DIFFERENCE? The formal written brief asking the 9th Circuit Court of...
LASD Civilian Oversight Report, Kids and Prop 47, and Still No Child Welfare Czar
LA SUPES TO CONSIDER WORKING GROUP’S FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CREATING CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT...
DA Jackie Lacey Delivers Her Master Plan for Diverting LA’s Mentally Ill From Lock-Up
After 15 months of research, including out-of-state field trips to see what other cities and...
How Do You Rate the Risk of Kid in a Troubled Family of Being Abused? This Woman Has an App for That….& More
Ruby Guillen is a social worker who has worked for LA’s Department of Children and Family...
Incarcerated Kids 3 Times More Likely to Be Hospitalized for Mental Health Issues….New LASD Mental Heath Crisis Teams in Desert….Expanding Adelanto…and Sandra Bland
LOCKED UP KIDS IN CA ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE HOSPITALIZED FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS THAN...
LA Housing Authority Will Pay $2 Million for Antelope Valley Housing Discrimination…Bill to Limit Drugging of CA Foster Kids Won’t Fix the Problem
US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COURT-ENFORCEABLE SETTLEMENT OVER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION MEANS LA HOUSING...
LASD Heroes Find Baby Allegedly Kidnapped by Pimp
LA SHERIFF’S DEPT. MEMBERS FIND AMBER ALERT BABY THROUGH INTER-BUREAU COLLABORATION & A...
The Power of “The Cartel” – When Headlines Imitate Art….& Fiction Tells the Real Truth About the Drug Wars
HEADLINES RIPPED FROM A NEW NOVEL (AND VICE VERSA) After it was released on June 23, Southern...
Do Unarmed Latinos Shot By Police Get Less Attention Than Blacks?…..Why Juvie Solitary Has to Go
BLACK LIVES MATTER, BUT WHAT ABOUT BROWN LIVES? Coroner’s data shows that half of those shot...
A Ride Home, Fresno’s Restorative Justice, $$ Spent on Misconduct in Biggest Police Departments, and Obama Visits Prison
THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION’S ROBY SO & CARLOS CERVANTES GIVE MEN LEAVING PRISON A RIDE...
Private Prison Medicine, Foster Care Benefits for Dual Status Kids, Presidential Pot Pardons, Sheriff Jim McDonnell on WWLA? …and More
WHEN FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS TAKE OVER PRISON HEALTH CARE INMATE MORTALITY RATES RISE The private...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Why is LA County Probation Sitting on $21.7 Million in Unspent Juvie Justice Funds?
A few weeks ago, WitnessLA learned that LA County Probation was sitting on $21.7 million in...
Judge Forces Gardena to Release 2013 Video of City’s Cops Shooting Unarmed Man…& More
On Tuesday, federal Judge Stephen V. Wilson ordered the city of Gardena to release two disturbing...
President Obama – Pardons and Prisons….Feds Return Control of CA Prison Health Care at Folsom…Helping Out-of-County Foster Kids Retain Mental Health Care….and Solitary Confinement
OBAMA FOCUSES ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM AND THE U.S. AS “A NATION OF SECOND CHANCES,”...
LA County Supes to Approve County’s Participation in MacArthur Foundation Grant-Driven Plot to Reform LA’s Jails
The vote on Tuesday is really just a formality. No one really expects the LA County Board of...
SISTERS RISING: How a Group of Justice-Involved Young Women Heal & Strengthen While Helping Each Other & Themselves – by Sarah Zahedi
Editor’s Note: As youth crime has declined in the past decade, girls’ contact with the...
Ten LA County Sheriff’s Jail Personnel Relieved of Duty Over “Troubling” Report of Inmate Abuse
10 RELIEVED OF DUTY IN ONE DAY On Saturday night, Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell...