Lawsuit Alleges LA County Probation Staffers Knew Fellow Officer Was Sexually...
Former Los Angeles County probation officer, Oscar David Calderon Jr., 33, was sentenced Wednesday to one year in jail after pleading guilty to two felony counts of assault under the color of...
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#MeToo Behind Bars: Snitches Get Stitches: Can Kids Safely Report Abuse in LA...
For the young people in Los Angeles County’s 12 juvenile camps, 3 juvenile halls, and one juvenile placement center, there are three ways to respond actively to mistreatment at the hands of staff or...
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#MeToo Behind Bars: Audit Says Inmates at Risk for Sexual Abuse in LA Women’s...
In February of this year, a Los Angeles County Deputy named Giancarlo Scotti, who was working at the women’s jail located in Lynwood, California, was charged with sexually assaulting six female inmates...
View Article#MeToo Behind Bars: Will Proposed $1 Million Settlement on Case of Alleged...
Last September, Los Angeles County Deputy Probation Officer, Oscar David Calderon Jr., then 33, was sentenced to one year in county jail after pleading guilty to two felony counts of assault under the...
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#MeToo Behind Bars: Did the LA Sheriff’s Dept. Have Early Evidence That A...
As the firing of CBS chief executive Les Moonves in the wake of another round assault and harassment claims continues to make national headlines, in another part of Los Angeles, a new lawsuit filed...
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#MeToo Behind Bars: How Federal Investigators Are Ignoring Prison Sexual...
This story is part of a new WitnessLA investigative series by Lauren Lee White that is made possible with the generous support of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Janean Owens has been...
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Despite Allegations of Sexual Assaults on Kids by Staff, LA Probation Youth...
Last year, according to Los Angeles County Probation officials, thirteen kids under the county’s supervision filed what are technically known as PREA grievances against probation staff members....
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#MeToo Behind Bars: Sexual Misconduct at the LA County Women’s Jail
In 2011, Michele Infante was incarcerated for close to six months at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, CA, a small city adjacent to Compton and Watts. The facility is Los Angeles...
View ArticleVictims Say They Feel Betrayed By Judge’s Sentence of 2 Years in Fire Camp...
with Lauren Lee White Judge Renee Korn’s day was running late last Thursday morning, so it past 10:30 a.m. before the sentencing hearing for former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy, Giancarlo...
View ArticleAnother Victim of Former LA Sheriff’s Deputy Giancarlo Scotti Gets Payout
Last Tuesday, October 29, The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to authorize a $325,000 payout for another victim of former LA County Sheriff’s Deputy Giancarlo Scotti. The victim, Pauline...
View ArticleNew sexual assault case– this time at LA County Sheriff’s Lancaster jail — to...
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, the LA County Supervisors will vote on a $950,000 settlement for Michelle Contreras, who has sued the County of Los Angeles for an incident that occurred in mid-June of 2019,...
View ArticleWatch for an important new #MeToo Behind Bars story later this week
We have a new and disturbing story coming on Thursday of this week that is part of WitnessLA’s #MeToo Behind Bars series. The story begins in mid April, 2019, when a teenage girl who was a resident...
View ArticleWhen LA County Probation officials got reports that a staff member sexually...
In mid April, 2019, a teenage girl who was a resident at Los Angeles County Probation’s Central Juvenile Hall, one of the county’s two remaining jail-like youth lock-ups, told one of her mental health...
View ArticleA total of 4 prison staff members have been charged with sexual abuse in a...
This week James Theodore Highhouse, a corrections worker and chaplain, working at FCA Dublin, a women federal prison located north of San Jose and south of Oakland, CA, was charged with sexually...
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INSIDE JOB: PREA turns 20 this year, and it urgently needs fixing
by Chandra Bozelko On December 8, 2022, a jury convicted the former warden of the Federal Correctional Institution-Dublin located in Alameda County, CA, of eight crimes. Ray J. Garcia, the former...
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