I was the moderator of a panel entitled, The Never-Ending Plague: Guns in America, which featured the authors of two ...

Also on Thursday, April 11, in Sacramento, CA, the California Board of State and Community Corrections ( BSCC) spent multiple hours trying to decide if they officially should find LP, as Los Padrinos ...

On Tuesday, April 9, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to move the county’s Jail Closure Implementation Team (JCIT) out of one department and into another, and to “empower” ...

The last fifteen months have been deadly in the nation’s largest jail system. There were 45 deaths in 2023. When you include ...

When last year Los Angeles County Sheriff’s lieutenant Eric Strong was loaned to LA County Probation as their Chief Safety and Security Officer, not everyone was convinced it was a great idea to bring ...

On March 21, the LA County Public Defender’s Office officially launched the Community Outreach Court (COC), a program to help unhoused community members clear up legal issues that may block them from ...

On Thursday, January 25, the team of five appellate attorneys representing Mark Ridley-Thomas filed their 102-page brief in order to appeal their client’s conviction with the United States Court of ...

WitnessLA fully believes that a lively and diverse community of commenters makes a news site and/or blog a much richer and more valuable place for all concerned. But ...

So many African American women have given me hope and influenced what I want my future to look ...