Joanna Lewis’s family never believed she took her own life. In 2011, investigators found her hanging from a bath robe’s belt ...

I was the moderator of a panel entitled, The Never-Ending Plague: Guns in America, which featured the authors of two ...

On Wednesday, April 24, California Attorney General announced that his office has filed criminal charges against Diana Teran, ...

On Tuesday, April 9, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to move the county’s Jail Closure Implementation Team (JCIT) out of one department and into another, and to “empower” ...

Thursday, April 11, was not a cheering day for those who care about the young people in the care of Los Angeles County Probation On Thursday morning during a hearing in a Sylmar juvenile courtroom, ...

When last year Los Angeles County Sheriff’s lieutenant Eric Strong was loaned to LA County Probation as their Chief Safety and Security Officer, not everyone was convinced it was a great idea to bring ...

On Thursday, January 25, the team of five appellate attorneys representing Mark Ridley-Thomas filed their 102-page brief in order to appeal their client’s conviction with the United States Court of ...

On March 21, the LA County Public Defender’s Office officially launched the Community Outreach Court (COC), a program to help unhoused community members clear up legal issues that may block them from ...

WitnessLA gets regular calls from sources inside Los Angeles County’s jail system. Mostly the callers just want to talk to someone. But they also call when there’s been another death in Men’s Central ...

WitnessLA fully believes that a lively and diverse community of commenters makes a news site and/or blog a much richer and more valuable place for all concerned. But ...

The podcast for the special Christmas Day, 1-hour broadcast of KPFK’s Deadline LA has been ...