The matter came to the Ninth after District Judge Charles Breyer issued a temporary restraining order requiring the president to return control of approximately 4,000 California National Guard troops ...

While Assistant Editor Taylor Walker has been once more looking into the painful and ongoing issue of moving LA County’s young people between various youth lock-ups, each of these environments clearly ...

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna attended the monthly meeting of the county’s Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission—or COC. The sheriff was scheduled to give a ...

This afternoon, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the unsealing of a grand jury indictment against 30 detention services officers from Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall on charges of child ...

As Los Angeles County residents continue to struggle with the destructive aftermath of the Eaton and the Palisades fires, the Hughes Fire, which bloomed into being On Wednesday, January 22, was still ...

As we race through the last of our various 2024 holidays, and toward 2025, WitnessLA has begun to look at what effects the new year may have on the conviction of Mark-Ridley-Thomas. In the meantime, ...

Recent developments in California and New York make it clear: Foster care is now known to be so harmful to children—and there is so much abuse in foster care—that agencies providing it are becoming ...

Two new reports from The Sentencing Project reveal that while the number of kids in juvenile carceral facilities in the United States has dropped exponentially over the last 20 years, there are still ...

LASD Sergeant Rosa Gonzalez wanted to be a cop ever since she was a kid. “I grew up in a bad environment,” she said when we talked about her childhood ambitions. “My dad was a heroin addict. My mom ...

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” ...

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 ...

For the last 24 years, incarceration has influenced my outlook on my future. But where I reside now — in a Texas prison — does not discourage me. It fuels me to rise above my surroundings. After all, ...