LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- State regulators voted to find two of L.A. County's troubled juvenile halls "unsuitable" to live in on Tuesday. Officials now have two months to move nearly 300 young people. But ...

"Officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall have a duty to ensure the safety and well-being of those under their care. Instead, the officers charged today did just the opposite," Attorney General Rob ...

A judge approved Los Angeles County Probation's plan to move more than 100 youth detainees out of the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall. "This plan reflects our continued commitment to balancing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Los Angeles County probation officer was arrested Tuesday afternoon on charges he smuggled drugs into a juvenile hall where a teen died of a drug overdose in 2023, prosecutors said. Michael Solis, ...