One year ago, state regulators, fed up with Los Angeles County’s repeated failure to maintain minimum standards for juveniles in its custody, took the nearly unprecedented step of ordering the ...

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 ...

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 ...