When news broke earlier this year that 30 officers at a Los Padrinos juvenile detention facility were charged with facilitating gladiator fights between youth inmates, it evoked scenes straight out of ...
More than a decade ago, I walked into the Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Los Angeles County to gather data for a lawsuit related to their “failure to provide an adequate education to detained ...
DOWNEY, Calif. (KABC) - Dozens of officers at a juvenile detention center are being charged for facilitating “gladiator fights” between youth detainees. The ...
The recent indictment of 30 correctional officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, California for orchestrating “gladiator fights” among incarcerated youth provides a window into the brutality ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cavan W. Concannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE ...