Asbestos, lead and mold have festered in the old juvenile hall since its occupants were moved to a new site two decades ago.
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 ...
In 2013, after documentary filmmaker Mimi Chakarova watched “Fruitvale Station,” the fictionalized retelling of the events that led to Oscar Grant’s death, she emerged from the theater a bit rattled. ...
Veteran corrections official Michael Dempsey testified that the crisis facing Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall is unlike anything ...
Los Angeles County has partially reopened Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and moved 39 youths from the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall to the facility without permission from the state ...