Pepper spray usage and violence skyrocketed at Los Angeles County’s second largest juvenile facility last year after dozens of youth were shifted there from the beleaguered Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, ...

A Los Angeles County probation officer has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation for carrying and using pepper spray during a fight involving 14 girls at a ...

This article was originally published in Honolulu Civil Beat. An incident where schoolchildren were hit with pepper spray at an Oʻahu school has added momentum to calls for counselors, not cops, on ...