MORE ON: juvenile justice

Daily Report: Public Safety

Counties ready to handle state's juvenile offenders, study says

February 9, 2012, 12:05 AM
County governments have invested nearly a half-billion dollars over the past 15 years to modernize juvenile lockups and now have the capacity to absorb offenders currently housed in the state’s youth prisons, if those facilities are closed, a new study contends.  The report [PDF] by... + read more
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Juvenile inmates often isolated nearly 24 hours straight

June 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
Juvenile inmates at California correctional facilities have been held in isolation nearly 24 hours straight on hundreds of occasions this year, in violation of state regulations. An audit by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in March found multiple facilities operated... + read more
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State to keep some youth correctional facilities open

March 23, 2011, 4:37 PM
Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature have agreed to keep open some state youth correctional facilities, taking some of the gloss off his vision of "bringing government closer to the people."  Hear more on a KQED/California Watch radio report aired on The California Report... + read more
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Brown's plan to shut down youth correctional facilities derailed

March 14, 2011, 1:05 AM
Gov. Jerry Brown's grand vision of "bringing government closer to the people" has run into a snag – at least when it comes to the state's youth correctional system.  If his plan had gone through, California would have been the first state in the country to abolish... + read more
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Budget cuts could send young offenders to adult prisons

January 20, 2011, 12:07 AM
Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to abolish the state youth prison system could save hundreds of millions of dollars and quicken the pace of reform at county facilities. But the changes could remove important barriers that keep some juvenile offenders out of adult prisons. Brown’s plan to... + read more
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Small but costly juvenile prison program awaits fate

October 28, 2010, 12:05 AM
The drastic decline in the population of the California Youth Authority is one of the great success stories in the state's mostly abortive attempts to reform its criminal justice system. "The radical decline in the CYA population is one of the state's and nation's best kept... + read more
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Rape, sexual assaults of juvenile inmates lower in California

March 9, 2010, 12:06 AM
Compared to the rest of the nation, California ranks relatively low in the number of sexual assaults among its juvenile wards, according to a first-ever national report on the problem. O.H. Close youth facility, Stockton Five California facilities reported a rate of sexual assault... + read more
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Fewer juveniles in state lock-ups

March 2, 2010, 10:01 AM
As California’s troubled prison system struggles to meet a court order to cut its inmate population, the number of juvenile offenders in state custody continues a dramatic decline.  According to latest figures from the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the population of California... + read more
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