AltWeeklies Wire
Using Soccer to Help Juvenile Offenders in Santa Cruz Countynew
For the last four years, Gina Castaneda has been a deputy probation officer for Santa Cruz County, working with juvenile offenders who live in the Watsonville area. Her soccer team is made up of a small handful of the 400 youths currently on, or at least in contact with, county probation, some of them from rival gangs.
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Jessica Lussenhop |
11-11-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Santa Cruz Elder Abuse Case Goes Nationalnew
Last week, Congress heard James "Pops" Lee's story in a short documentary film prepared by the Elder Justice Now campaign, a partnership of the National Council on Aging and WITNESS, a human rights video documentary group, in an effort to push the passage of the so-called Elder Abuse Justice Act
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Jessica Lussenhop |
11-02-2009 |
Crime & Justice
