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 ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- State regulators voted to find two of L.A. County's troubled juvenile halls "unsuitable" to live in on Tuesday. Officials now have two months to move nearly 300 young people. But ...

SAN FRANCISCO – As a 14-year-old, Ayanna Rasheed never dreamed she would one day be valedictorian of her high school class, a youth advocate, and a licensed EMT. That’s because Rasheed, now 22, was ...

A woman was arrested on suspicion of attempting to bring fentanyl into a Los Angeles youth facility while visiting her child, according to a release from the Los Angeles County Probation Department.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County leaders are once again scrambling to stem the flow of illicit drugs into the county's troubled juvenile halls. After nine people were rushed to the hospital last week ...

Only a third of incarcerated students in Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall graduated last year and 14% were chronically absent or missed more than a month of the school year, according to a new report by a ...

Pierce County Executive Ryan Mello signed a directive Monday establishing a 15-member task force to help guide plans to replace the aging juvenile justice center, Remann Hall, as officials opened up ...

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 ...