Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, California, will stay open past its December 12th shutdown deadline due to a judge's decision. The hall faces closure for inadequate staffing, but the judge has granted the Probation Department more time to propose solutions.
Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall will remain open until at least early January after a judge held off on ordering the troubled hall shut down. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Miguel Espinoza required the Probation Department to appear in court Monday to argue why the Downey hall should remain open despite a shutdown order from the state.
Closing Los Padrinos would require the roughly 250 young people inside the hall to be moved elsewhere, potentially lower-security camps, home confinement or facilities in neighboring counties. The California Board of State and Community Corrections, a state oversight board, ordered the hall shut down by Dec. 12 because of repeated issues with inadequate staffing. The county flouted the order, leaving the youth inside and appealing in court. “There is no question that dramatic changes must be made to Los Padrinos,” Espinoza told L.A. County officials at the Monday hearing. After a briefing from the Probation Department, Espinoza continued the hearing to Jan. 10, noting that the situation was “in flux.” “The Probation Department is working arduously to collaborate with the court, state officials, community partners, and other stakeholders to resolve this issue in a manner that is both effective and sustainable,' the agency said in a statement Monday. 'Our shared goal is to ensure a rehabilitative environment for justice-involved youth in our care while balancing public safety and meeting the highest standards of care.” The county Board of Supervisors recently declared a “local emergency” over the crisis in the hall. The emergency order gives new powers to the chief, allowing him to temporarily redirect some of the county’s workforce into the halls. “It is the staffing that has been the most difficult compliance item, in part because it requires a much longer-term plan to be able to correct,” Probation Chief Guillermo Viera Rosa told the judge Monda
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