Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they got a bittersweet new lease on life.

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary Breck at her Kern County home in October ... Williams had spent his youth cycling through juvenile hall and foster homes.

An L.A. County judge approved a plan to move roughly 100 juveniles out of troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, ...

The judge said he would allow the Downey facility to stay open for now, but it will need to pass a new state inspection once ...

A Los Angeles County judge on Friday approved a plan that will require moving over 100 young people out of Los Padrinos ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Kern County SEIU workers are planning a second strike on June 3–4, demanding fair wages and accusing the county of underfunding essential public services.

Los Angeles County's troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey appears to be on the verge of closure, with a judge issuing a tentative order Friday calling on the county to develop a plan for ...

Los Angeles County will reopen a shuttered juvenile hall in Sylmar, move girls in its custody to a remote location in the Santa Monica Mountains and shuffle juveniles elsewhere to cut the ...