Earlier this month, The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED ran a jointly produced story...
The Power of LASD Inspector General…Breakdown of Blue Ribbon Commission’s Foster Care Report…DOJ to Consider Thousands of New Clemency Requests…and More
DOES LASD CIVILIAN WATCHDOG MAX HUNTSMAN HOLD ENOUGH SWAY TO CLEAN UP THE DEPARTMENT? In January...
Are We Creating “Monsters?”….Education: The Next Juvenile Justice Reform….A Former “Bad Child” Speaks Out…Oregon Prisons Rethink Their Family Visit Policy
MAKING MONSTERS: A NEW LOOK AT SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Beginning on Tuesday, April 22, PBS’s...
What Does CA’s Use of Juvie Isolation Look Like?…..Stop Locking Up Truant Kids in CA! ….The Lousy State of Education in Juvie Lock-Ups, CA’ s included….North Carolina Sheriff Takes On Wrongful Convictions….Farewell to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING LOOKS HARD AT CA’S JUVIE SOLITARY In addition to the shock...
$$ for Relatives Caring for Kids in the DCFS System, LASD Tightening Use-of-Force Policies & Putting Body Scanners in Jails….LAPD Commission Responds to Vehicle Camera Tampering….and Wolves
EDITORIAL: GIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO RELATIVES CARING FOR CHILDREN IN THE CHILD WELFARE...
LA Times’ Sheriff Stories, Lower Recidivism Rate for Kids on In-Home Probation vs. Probation Camp…and More
TWO NOTEWORTHY LASD-RELATED LA TIMES STORIES The LA Times has two worthwhile sheriff’s...
Sex Trafficked Boys Overlooked as Victims….Trials for Sheriff’s Department Members Indicted for Hiding Federal Informant Schedules for May…..Pulitzers…and More
SEXUALLY TRAFFICKED BOYS ARE SEEN AS VICTIMS LESS OFTEN It is heartening that kids who are involved...
Blue Ribbon Commission’s Foster Care Report…Dysfunction-Plagued $840M State Medical Prison…Judge Orders CA to Limit Pepper Spray & Isolation of Mentally Ill Prisoners…LA News Group Backs McDonnell for Sheriff
CALIFORNIA MEDICAL PRISON STRUGGLING WITH STANDARD INMATE CARE STILL CLOSED TO NEW ADMISSIONS In...
At Least 9 Dead in Crash of LA Student Tour Bus, More Injured
We are heartbroken The LA Times has a team covering updates on the tragic crash. Here’s a...
It’s LA Times Festival of Books Weekend!!!
That glorious time has come ’round again: the LA Time Festival of Books is this weekend! ...
Isolation’s Effects on Kids…LAPD Motorcycle Officer Christopher Cortijo Has Died…Dismantled LAPD Dash-Cam Update…What’s Really Blocking Child Welfare Reform…and a New Prison Overcrowding Compliance Officer
CHILD PSYCHIATRIST SAYS LOCKING KIDS IN SOLITARY IS “THE ULTIMATE MESSAGE THAT WE DON’T...
LA Sheriff’s Debaters Finally Start to Draw Blood…. & More
If we are to judge by the last two debates featuring the men who hope to become the next LA County...
LAPD Wilshire Station Shooting, Debunking the “Superpredator,” Breaking the Cycle of Repeat Victimization…and More
GUNMAN OPENED FIRE IN LAPD WILSHIRE STATION, INJURED AN OFFICER An LAPD officer was wounded in a...
LASD Female Deputies Dispute Claims in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
In an open letter released over the weekend, female deputies from Los Angeles County...
Tricking Teenagers into Breaking the Law, Inmate Allowed to Sue Baca Personally, TX Gov. Perry and PREA, and an ALADS Story Update
RIVERSIDE COUNTY’S PENCHANT FOR UNDERCOVER HIGH SCHOOL DRUG STINGS In 2012, Jesse Snodgrass...
Peter Matthiessen: May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014…Into the Mystery
Impassioned non-fiction-writer, novelist, naturalist Peter Matthiessen died on Saturday at 86 of...
U.S. Attorney André Birotte Tapped by Obama to be Fed. Judge—& Why This is Cheering News
U.S. ATTORNEY ANDRE BIROTTE NOMINATED BY POTUS TO BECOME FEDERAL JUDGE On Thursday afternoon the...
LA Foster Girls Get Ready for Prom with Help from Glamour Gowns, California Leasing More Private Prison Space, Enforcing PREA, and Children of Re-entry
CASA’S GLAMOUR GOWNS GIVES LOS ANGELES GIRLS IN FOSTER CARE THE FULL PROM TREATMENT Glamour...