Published by LAist
After a judge approved a plan earlier this month to begin clearing out the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, the Los Angeles County Probation Department says it has begun the process of transferring incarcerated young people between camps to prepare for the transition.
Probation’s depopulation plan, approved by L.A. County Superior Court Judge Miguel Espinoza on May 16, calls for moving youths to camps and other facilities spread across the county, including back into Camp Joseph Paige in La Verne and Camp Vernon Kilpatrick in Malibu.
The plan would move about 100 youths out of Los Padrinos in Downey, which currently has a population of about 270.
Several criminal justice reform groups, including the Young Women’s Freedom Center and the Youth Justice Coalition, urged the court to reject Probation’s plan and instead implement the Oversight Commission’s alternative recommendations.
