He’s Remaking Criminal Justice in L.A. But How Far Is Too Far? (Published 2021)
To keep people out of prison, George Gascón is risking everything: rising violent crime, a staff rebellion and the votes that made him district attorney.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/magazine/george-gascon-los-angeles.html
In Los Angeles, the district attorney’s office focuses on whether a young person would be amenable to the services available to juveniles. “We have no evidence to suggest that he’s a sociopath,” Alisa Blair says of Cachu, “or that he’s going to be a serial killer, or that this was anything other than the response of a teenager, experiencing adolescent brain development.”