Month: December 2013
New Resource on SB 260 Released
The Fair Sentencing for Youth Coalition and Human Rights Watch released a new guide for prisoners and their families about youthful offender parole hearings for prisoners convicted as adults for juvenile offenses. …
California Supreme Court Rules Youth Aged 18-22 in County Jail Entitled to Special Education Services
Disability Rights Legal Center and pro bono co-counsel at Milbank, Hadley, Tweed, & McCloy have won a landmark case in the California Supreme Court. The court ruled in Los Angeles Unified School District v. Garcia on December 13, 2013, that California Education Code section 56041, (which requires the school district in which a pupil’s parent …