Harvard study suggests tactic for U.S. jails to reduce inmate deaths
County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation, ...
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Will Rogers’ ranch house, Hearst-owned motel burned by Palisades fire
Among the carnage wrought by the devastating Palisades fire were two pieces of California history dating to a bygone era.Will ...
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Judge holds off on ordering shutdown of L.A. County’s juvenile hall
Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall will remain open until at least early January after a judge held off on ordering the ...
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L.A. to boost pay for nonprofits at its homeless shelters
The Los Angeles City Council hiked the rate that it pays for services at many of its homeless shelters on ...
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As mass deportations loom, ICE eyeing new detention facility in California
As the incoming Trump administration promises the mass deportation of unauthorized immigrants, federal authorities are eyeing California for a new ...
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Women reach settlement in suit alleging sex abuse at California prison
Inmates at a recently shuttered, scandal-plagued Bay Area women’s prison dubbed “the rape club” have reached a historic settlement that ...
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Activists have a new tactic to close Aliso Canyon gas storage facility
Ever since a historic, methane-spewing blowout in October 2015, local lawmakers, residents and activists have been pressuring state regulators and ...
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Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater into clean drinking water
Los Angeles will soon begin building a $740-million project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water in the San Fernando ...
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