One year ago, state regulators, fed up with Los Angeles County’s repeated failure to maintain minimum standards for juveniles in its custody, took the nearly unprecedented step of ordering the ...

The authors argue inconsistently applied rules leave both juveniles and adults without access to healing touch.

“I think if more juvenile hall systems were dedicated…we could actually have something going.” Although Rasheed does not remember any of her teachers from her time in court schools, she does recall ...