A top L.A. County probation official has said the agency won’t obey a state order to vacate Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall this month, potentially setting up a costly showdown between state and county ...

For months, the review board that investigates alleged misconduct by county law enforcement officers has been unable to investigate cases of youth who are seriously injured in county custody. Last ...

Los Angeles County’s largest juvenile detention center has failed a critical inspection, leaving the county in the unprecedented position of having roughly 260 youth locked up in a facility legally ...

I grew up in poverty, with a father in and out of prison, a mother addicted to heroin, and my cousins caught up in gangs. When I was a teenager, my friends and I started stealing cars and joyriding as ...

I grew up in poverty, with a father in and out of prison, a mother addicted to heroin, and my cousins caught up in gangs. When I was a teenager, my friends and I started stealing cars and joyriding as ...

For months, the review board that investigates alleged misconduct by county law enforcement officers has been unable to investigate cases of youth who are seriously injured in county custody. Last ...