These Californians Are Working on Anti-Violence Solutions to Help Families By Claudia...
In Wrongful Death Settlement, Family of Shaylene Graves Will Get $3.5 Million and a Platform to Urge CA’s Prison Officials to Implement Policies That Better Protect Women in Custody
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) will pay $3.5 million to the...
Prosecutor for International Criminal Court announces investigation into war crimes regarding events unfolding in Ukraine
Like many around the world, Karim A.A. Khan QC, the prosecutor for the world’s International...
New Report Urges LASD to Release More Pregnant People From Jail, Improve Conditions
Since 2018, at the behest of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Inspector General Max...
OIG’s Report Calls on LA’s Supervisors to Continue Assistance Program for Families Whose Loved Ones Die in Custody
During its pilot period, Los Angeles County’s Family Assistance Program was a welcome help to...
“Gate Money” Bill Would Significantly Increase Assistance for Californians Returning Home From Prison
In California, people leaving prison each receive $200 as a release allowance, known as “gate...
Los Angeles DA George Gascón wrestles with the case of Hannah Tubbs & the complexity of justice reform, as he modifies his ban on trying youth as adults
Gascón admitted that even the best intentioned one-size-fits-all rules don't always work when it...
‘A change in narrative’: Ethnic studies program helps incarcerated youth navigate identity
Nate Tan's students aren’t Zooming in from campus dorms. Instead, they’re taking classes in...
LA County’s Central Juvenile Hall barely dodges hearing by state board as to whether the facility is “suitable” for youth habitation.
Time is nearly up for LA County Probation to clean up its youth jails before the state board lowers...
Unidentified intruder posing as healthcare worker wanders into LA County youth lock-up, takes COVID “swabs” from kids, then exits.
On Saturday, January 29, 2022, an unidentified person managed to enter Los Angeles...
Op-Ed: Tough-on-crime laws and mass incarceration waste tax dollars and don’t make us any safer
Elected prosecutors have been seeking other proactive ways to reform a criminal legal system that...
San Jose, CA, Enacts Nation’s 1st Firearm Insurance Requirement
San Jose, California, has become the first city in the country to require gun owners to have...
Has the LA County Sheriff’s Department gone back to rigged promotions, along with other forms of favoritism & corruption? A new lawsuit says YES.
More than a decade ago, during the corruption-riddled past of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s...
A total of 4 prison staff members have been charged with sexual abuse in a northern CA federal lock-up
This week James Theodore Highhouse, a corrections worker and chaplain, working at FCA Dublin, a...
A call to reform solitary confinement in our nation’s federal prisons
Warehousing COVID sick inmates in solitary means that those who report symptoms are unjustifiably...
As COVID Spikes in CA’s Adult Prisons, COVID cases now triple in youth prisons.
This week we reported on the ongoing COVID spike inside California’s prison facilities, where...
On Monday, Spike in COVID numbers in CA’s prisons produces 2375 new cases, with 1625 of those new cases located in 5 state lock-ups. Two days later the spike went still higher to 3232 with COVID.
In the last few weeks, Americans have watched COVID numbers rise alarmingly as the Omicron variant...
Op-Ed: Meaningful police reform in California starts with training
New Little Hoover Commission report focuses on five ways to improve law enforcement training in...