Michael Dempsey, the veteran corrections officer the state wants put in charge of L.A. County’s juvenile facilities, has spent 40 years in the industry, including running a maximum security juvenile ...

Jennifer Rodriguez, executive director of Youth Law Center and also a formerly incarcerated minor, recalled her earliest impressions of education inside juvenile hall. “I still remember, my very first ...

There was a time when young people would land in “juvee” for crimes as minor as shoplifting, marijuana use and fights on school grounds. That approach existed even when Tamara Gusman-Taylor, director ...