Health and justice reform in our juvenile facilities is already a human rights necessity. Now the...
New Report Says CA Voters Support Releasing Many Vulnerable People From Prison Due To COVID-19 Dangers
As of April 11, the California Department of Corrections reported that the CDCR’s COVID-19...
After the COVID-19 Release of Prisoners, Who Will Help Them?
"I spent half my life in prison—24 years, eight months and 15 days—and nothing I experienced...
With Public Defenders Urging, CA Chief Justice & State’s Judicial Council Take Big Step Toward Getting More Kids Out of Lockup During COVID-19.
When it was clear that the COVID-19 crisis was going to explode in the U.S., the push in...
CA Judicial Council Sets $0 Bail for Misdemeanors and Low-Level Felonies in Response to Coronavirus
Zero-Bail for Defendants Accused of Non-Serious Crimes On Monday, the California Judicial Council...
Second Employee at LA’s Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall Tests Positive for COVID-19
Now a total of two LA County Probation staff members working at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall have...
Federal 3-Judge Panel Says It Can’t Address Coronavirus Crisis in CA Prisons, But Offers Attorneys Seeking Releases a Legal Path Forward
On March 25, as coronavirus was just starting to spread within the state prison system, attorneys...
Now That A Staff Member Has COVID-19, Why Isn’t LA County Releasing More Kids From Its Youth Lockups
On Wednesday, April 1, the news broke that a detention services officer who worked at Barry J...
What Restorative Justice Can Teach Us About COVID-19 – And Ourselves.
I awaken every morning in this era of COVID-19 with a feeling of disorientation. While the pandemic...
CDCR Plans to Release as Many as 3,500 Prisoners Nearing the End of Their Sentences
UPDATE: As of April 3, there were twelve prisoners with COVID-19 diagnoses, triple the count...
Here Is How California Must Protect Youth in State LockUps During the COVID-19 Crisis
Epidemiologists warn that juvenile facilities are likely to experience dangerous COVID-19 outbreaks.
As Local Officials Continue to Drop Jail Populations Due to COVID-19 Dangers, California’s Overcrowded Prisons Remain Critically at Risk
Is Governor Gavin Newsom doing enough to address the coronavirus threat to California’s...
Cities, Legislatures Learn to Govern by Conference Call
Some of the most important legislation states and cities enact to fight the coronavirus pandemic...
COVID-19 Watch: Los Angeles County Public Defenders, District Attorneys, City Attorneys & Police Unions Say Courts are Unsafe
In one Long Beach court, public defenders found that something akin to Saran wrap was covering the...
LA County Supervisors Issue Executive Order in Hope of Protecting Jails From COVID-19 Catastrophe
Late on Monday, March 23, Kathryn Barger, the Chair of Los Angeles County Supervisors, issued an...
Gov. Newsom Signs Executive Order Closing Prisons and Youth Lockups to New Prisoners
California’s 35 prisons and four juvenile facilities will no longer accept new intakes, at...
With NYC Jails as a Disastrous Model, Supervisors Determined to Take Urgent Action to Protect LA’s Jails From the Onslaught of COVID-19
On March 18, Ross MacDonald, MD, chief medical officer for Rikers Island, wrote a string of furious...
First California Prisoner Tests Positive for COVID-19
UPDATE: As of Wednesday, March 25, two additional prison employees — one at California State...