Los Angeles County once again narrowly averted a shutdown of its two juvenile halls, bolstering staffing enough to temporarily appease state regulators. In February, the Board of State and Community Corrections gave the county a deadline: They had two months to improve dire conditions inside the halls or get everyone out. On Thursday, the state board said the eleventh-hour improvements to Los Padrinos in Downey and Barry J. Nidorf in Sylmar had done the job. They voted 6 to 3 to let the county’s... Read this story
