L.A. County prosecutors allege that a probation officer conspired with two juvenile detainees to sell Xanax to people being held inside Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar. (Brian van der Brug/Los ...

The Los Angeles County Probation Department faces another hurdle in its plan to depopulate Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall after state inspectors deemed another youth facility unsuitable. The Board of ...

An aerial view of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A judge approved a plan Friday to move more than 100 youths out of a troubled Los Angeles juvenile hall ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman. On today's show , we're talking about an investigation into the mistreatment of youth at San Diego County Juvenile Hall facilities. This is KPBS Midday ...

A juvenile detention officer was arrested at the Shasta County Juvenile Hall and is facing multiple felony charges involving ...

On most days now, L.A. County’s largest juvenile hall has “adequate numbers” of probation staff, yet it still struggles to provide the services and activities required by law, according to the ...

L.A. County now effectively has three juvenile halls instead of one — and all three are out of compliance with state law.

The Los Angeles County Probation Department wants a judge to reject the state’s proposed takeover of its juvenile facilities and to instead grant the agency its own powers to “slash through staffing ...

Michael Dempsey, the veteran corrections officer the state wants put in charge of L.A. County’s juvenile facilities, has spent 40 years in the industry, including running a maximum security juvenile ...

No one would ever think of any juvenile hall in the nation as an easy place to work. (Or, for that matter, if you were a wayward kid, to be incarcerated.) Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, run by Los ...