LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- One day after state regulators declared the county's two juvenile halls unsuitable to house youth -- with short-staffing among the issues leading to the declaration -- Los Angeles ...

Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins (D-La Mesa) has introduced Assembly Bill 1279 to reform youth justice policies and prevent juvenile court adjudications from triggering harsher adult sentences ...

When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation in September 2020 that took the state out of the business of incarcerating juvenile offenders, youth advocates hailed it as a long-overdue step toward ...

Cuyahoga County budget deliberations boiled over this week as councilmembers clashed over a $2.4 million proposal to hire more juvenile probation officers, prompting debate over the use of ...

On a recent afternoon, a 15-year-old sat nervously in a courtroom at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center in Seattle. After spending four months in detention, he was pleading ...

A bill that has sailed through the legislative process and is headed to the state Senate floor is a clever attempt to invent an alternative narrative for the perpetually floundering Los Angeles County ...

The Board of Supervisors’ belated flurry of directives this month to prevent the state-ordered closure of L.A. County’s two juvenile halls was far too little and probably came far too late. As The ...

Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. When Los Angeles County’s two juvenile halls repeatedly ...

Thirty officers from the Los Angeles County Probation Department have been indicted on criminal charges after an investigation into allegations they allowed — and in some cases encouraged — fights ...