By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Marlon Yarber is the first African American to serve as Sacramento County's chief of probation and he is actively recruiting more African Americans to join the department to address disparities and ensure fairness.
By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Sacramento County has received $1.3 million in grant funding to purchase five mobile outreach vehicles to help locals on probation overcome barriers to meeting their probation requirements and accessing other services.
Eighty-one years after California incarcerated its first 'ward,' the state's notoriously grim youth prison system is shutting down. But will young offenders fare any better in county lockups?
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. A new partnership between Lake Tahoe Community College s Rising Scholars Program (RSP) for justice-involved students and the youth detention facility El Centro High School in Sacramento has resulted in its first community college graduate.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. A new partnership between Lake Tahoe Community College s Rising Scholars Program (RSP) for justice-involved students and the youth detention facility El Centro High School in Sacramento has resulted in its first community college graduate.