SHUT DOWN THE LA COUNTY YOUTH WELCOME CENTER, A WAREHOUSE FOR HARD-TO-PLACE FOSTER KIDS, SEZ A...
The Visiting Center Trial – Day 3: A Deputy Tells of Lies That Were Far Too Costly
TRUTH AND LIES Criminal trials are about the law, of course, and hopefully about truth. They are...
The Visiting Center Trial, Day 3: An Alleged Victim Speaks of His Fear, and a Deputy Tells of Lies That Were Far Too Costly
Criminal trials are about the law, of course, and hopefully about truth. They are also about...
FATHERHOOD MATTERS: Dr. Jorja Leap Gives Readers a Remarkable Window into the Lives of the Fathers of Jordan Downs
FATHERS WITHOUT FATHERS Every Wednesday night around two dozen men from the Jordan Downs housing...
Day 2: Former LASD Deputy Takes the Stand and Tells of Falsifying Charges at Jail Visiting Center to Cover Brutality
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Pantamitr Zunggeemoge was the first prosecution...
CA Education Bill to Help Foster Kids, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Interview, CA Wrongful Convictions,
CA BILL TO OPEN EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM TO FOSTER KIDS LIVING WITH RELATIVES, WHO NEED JUST AS...
1st Day of Newest LASD Trial Features Accusations of Out-of-Control Brutality by Deputies versus Claims of Wall-to-Wall Gov’t Lies
OPENING ARGUEMENTS On Tuesday afternoon, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lizabeth Rhodes told a...
Protecting Kids with Locked-Up Parents, German Prisons, LA Investigating Social Workers after Brutal Beating of Baby…and More
COALITION IN ALAMEDA COUNTY FOCUSES ON TRAUMA-INFORMED EFFORTS TO HELP AND PROTECT KIDS WITH...
LA County Counsel Resigns After 8 Months, a Unique SF Drug Abuse Program for Teens, Public Input on LA Child Safety…and More
LA COUNTY COUNSEL MARK SALADINO UNEXPECTEDLY ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AFTER 8 MONTHS IN OFFICE Late...
How SCOTUS and a Horribly Botched Execution in OK Has Bearing on CA’s Possible Resumption Its Own Executions
CALIFORNIA & THE ONE-DRUG COCKTAIL Death penalty advocates who sued the state in 2014, hoping...
Mysterious Death in AZ Immigration Lock-Up Triggers Inmate Protest
Around two hundred detainees at Eloy Detention Center outside Tucson, AZ, reportedly launched a...
Solitary and Life on the Outside, Reauthorizing the JJDPA, Trial Date Set for Tanaka/Carey Case, More Reactions to LA Police Commission’s Ezell Ford Decision, and Tamir Rice
STATES RELEASE INMATES FROM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT BACK INTO THEIR COMMUNITIES, WHERE THEY STRUGGLE...
Bail, Blocked Video of a Fatal Shooting in Gardena, LA County Spending, and More on the Ezell Ford Decision
INEFFECTIVE BAIL BOND SYSTEM TARGETS POOR Bail in America is a punishment-until-proven-innocent...
Kids, Weapons, and Trauma…Ezell Ford…”Breaking Barriers”…and SF Sheriff Lets More Kids Visit Jailed Parents
STUDY: EXPOSURE TO WEAPONS, VIOLENCE LINKED TO TRAUMA, NEGATIVE OUTCOMES In the US, one-in-four...
Oversight of Jail Inmate Health Care Away Might Be Yanked From LA Sheriff’s Department…& Will the Supes Reconsider the High Ticket Jail Building Plan? – UPDATED
PROBABLE NEW MANAGEMENT FOR LA JAILS’ MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE Los Angeles County is...
The Breaking of Kalief Browder: 1993-2015
In October 2014, The New Yorker ran a shattering story by staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman about a...
Ex-Gang Member’s Life Does a 180 After He Joins Los Ryderz – by Sarah Zahedi
EDITOR’S NOTE: Programs that are effective at helping gang-involved kids and others to...
Bills to Curb Drugging of Foster Kids Clear CA Senate…Veteran’s Court Makes Vets Feel at Home…LA FBI Agent Indicted…and More
PACKAGE OF BILLS TARGETING OVER-DRUGGING OF CA’S FOSTER KIDS MOVES ON TO STATE ASSEMBLY On...