Pepper spray usage, violence surged after LA County juvenile hall transfers

Pepper spray usage and violence skyrocketed at Los Angeles County’s second largest juvenile facility last year after dozens of youth were shifted there from the beleaguered Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, ...
KEYT

Detained juvenile at Santa Maria Juvenile Hall booked for the July 4 murder of Brandon Cabrera

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – On Thursday, a juvenile who was already in custody at Santa Maria Juvenile Hall was booked for the murder of 25-year-old Brandon Cabrera on July 4 of this year. According to the ...
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

A year ago, Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall should have closed; here’s where it is today

One year ago, state regulators, fed up with Los Angeles County’s repeated failure to maintain minimum standards for juveniles in its custody, took the nearly unprecedented step of ordering the ...
Jezebel

Juvenile hall schools were given a report card, and it came back all F's

“I think if more juvenile hall systems were dedicated…we could actually have something going.” Although Rasheed does not remember any of her teachers from her time in court schools, she does recall ...