While Prop 6, the End Slavery in California Act, would prohibit forced prison labor, incarcerated people could still ...

This must-watch debate will air live at 5 p.m. Pacific time on Oct. 8 on KNX (97.1 FM and 1070 AM) and also the digital and ...

In juvenile facilities across California, youth impacted by gangs are labeled with prison gang terms. For approximately four years, I have worked as a gang interventionist and consultant, and a gang ...

In juvenile facilities across California, youth impacted by gangs are labeled with prison gang ...

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 ...

As most readers know, on Friday morning, Oct 4, Mayor Karen Bass announced her selection of former LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell as the next chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. McDonnell was ...

That was a text I sent to my ex-husband as part of my family’s healing process, made possible with the help of a restorative justice program located in Los Angeles. If anyone had said when I escaped ...

The California Constitution prohibits slavery — unless it is carried out as a punishment for a crime. This carveout makes it possible for prisons and jails to force incarcerated people to work, or ...

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