It’s not at all clear what will happen if the Board of State and Community Corrections determines on Thursday that Los Angeles County’s two juvenile halls remain unsuitable for the confinement of ...

During testimony in court, the compliance monitor described seeing four probation officers sitting around in a juvenile hall ...

The apparent overdose death of an 18-year-old at one of Los Angeles County’s juvenile halls goes beyond tragic. It is a mark of shame on a county that has repeatedly failed in its duty to keep young ...

Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, where almost half of the Los Angeles County Probation Department employees who staff the facility fail to show up for work on any given day. (Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

12:52 p.m. April 8, 2024: An earlier version of this editorial gave the wrong day for the meeting of the Board of State and Community Corrections. It is meeting Thursday. It’s not at all clear what ...