Officials are hopeful the condensed footprint at the renovated Downey facility will allow the Probation Department to address its staffing crisis.
within the next 10 days to meet a state mandate to empty its two other troubled juvenile halls by July 23.
Acting Deputy Chief Felicia Cotton expressed confidence in the department’s ability to reach that goal during a Probation Oversight Commission meeting Thursday, July 13.Cotton described the consolidation of L.A. County’s juvenile halls as a new beginning for a department that has been plagued by controversy for years.
The county, facing a nonstop deluge of call-outs, has struggled to appropriately staff the juvenile halls for more than a year. As a result, the department has experienced cascading failures that led to youth routinely missing out on educational and recreational activities, a proliferation of drugs within the halls, and squalid conditions in which youth were forced to urinate in corners of their cells due to limited bathroom access.
Though the department is still struggling with staffing, Cotton said Los Padrinos will have enough employees on hand to “complete the daily necessities that our kids deserve.” Roughly 44 full-time workers accompanied the 88 youth transferred to Downy from Central Juvenile Hall. Currently, the plan is to staff each unit with five employees per shift, with some units receiving a higher amount of staff as needed, Cotton said.
Construction crews worked around the clock to prepare Los Padrinos for the move, and even more construction is planned for the future. Though the original plan called for maintaining the law enforcement intake and medical services at Central Juvenile Hall even after July 23, the county now intends to move both units to Los Padrinos at some point in the future.
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