This time, the county does not have another large facility to fall back if Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey is closed.
Los Angeles County moved some 275 youths to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, pictured here, in May 2023. A state regulatory board has ordered Los Angeles County to shut down its two largest juvenile facilities in the next 60 days over substandard conditions, setting the stage for a potential nightmare scenario where the county will have hundreds of youth in its custody and nowhere locally to hold them.
Such a determination starts a 60-day clock, in which the county must either bring the facilities up to the state’s minimum standards or close indefinitely., over similar concerns. The county, in response, scrambled to renovate and reopen Los Padrinos, previously closed in 2019, as a new home for the juveniles before the deadline elapsed in July.
Sean Garcia-Leys, co-executive director of the Peace and Justice Law Center and a member of Los Angeles County’s Probation Oversight Commission, said the county must find ways to reduce the population at Los Padrinos to a more manageable level if it wants to avoid a shutdown. Inspectors determined that Los Padrinos, home to nearly 300 youth awaiting court appearances, did not properly train staff on uses of force, consistently failed to get youth to school on time and did not offer sufficient recreation, with some youth instead sitting in front of a TV, watching movies or playing video games, from when they woke up until they went to bed.Similar conditions, though not as severe, were found at Barry J.
While she acknowledged the department’s struggles, Epps suggested both Los Padrinos and the SYTF are actually in compliance, contrary to the inspectors’ findings, and assured the BSCC that the county can now provide the proper documentation to back up that claim.
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