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CA’s Chief Probation Officers call for immediate limited court receivership for LA County’s youth facilities
The county’s juvenile facilities, Pank wrote, “have become unrecognizable in comparison to facilities across the state due to ...
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How the failure to apply the state’s legal guidelines has resulted in unnecessary detentions in the county’s unsafe youth lock-ups
If WIC 203 is the legal guideline for the state’s youth justice system, why are so many youth in the County of Los Angeles detained in one of the county’s juvenile halls pending disposition? Currently ...
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Reinventing San Quentin
The condemned men currently housed at San Quentin will be transferred to other prisons, a move first plotted in 2016, with ...
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Bill Seeks Increased Media Access to Prisons and Incarcerated Interviewees
In 1994, then-California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill giving the state prison system more authority to block ...
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Ridding our nation’s prisons of solitary confinement is far harder than it should be
California’s State Legislature passed a bill that prohibited solitary confinement for a list of people who are at higher risk ...
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Prison Policy
In 1994, then-California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill giving the state prison system more ...
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Three LAPD officers shot in Lincoln Heights in stable condition, shooter dead.
The shooting to which the chief referring to took place in Lincoln Heights about 6 p.m. Wednesday night. The Los Angeles ...
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LA County Probation Chief Gonzales fired by Supervisors, his 2nd in command to take his place
Los Angeles County Probation Chief Adolfo Gonzales was fired by the Board of Supervisors late in the afternoon on Tuesday, ...
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Op-Ed: We Must Invest in LA’s Justice Involved Youth
Witness LA’s Celeste Fremon has declared that the LA County juvenile halls are neither safe for youth nor for the staff or ...