Personal experiences drive efforts amid the state of California's juvenile justice system changes.
Criminal Justice
A conversation with Katherine Lucero, the first director of California's Office of Youth and Community Restoration.
The closures of California's youth prison system had been in the works since Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 announced the shutdown, which would trim costs from juvenile justice budgets.
This is the first in a multi-part series about racial and economic disparities in LA County’s child welfare system, and the impact family surveillance and separation has on kids and their parents.
Civil rights advocates and experts have long argued that these technologies reinforce structural racism and target poor and low-income communities.