A staffing crisis has led to youths urinating in their rooms, stabbings and drug smuggling, but time is running out on resolving the problems.
A state oversight board is giving Los Angeles County another month to fix its troubled juvenile halls, but board members warned the county must demonstrate real progress in that time frame or the facilities would still be declared “unsuitable” and shut down.
“It sounds trite, but I struggle with trusting L.A. County going forward, and with that struggle comes young people in your care, who aren’t given adequate programming, that are locked in a room overnight and unable to use restrooms, and who are being asked to sit around and watch TV and play video games all day,” she said.
This isn’t the first time the county juvenile halls have been in the state’s cross hairs. The state agency previously declared both the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and Central Juvenile Hall near downtown L.A. “unsuitable for the confinement of youth” in September 2021 and then Central Juvenile Hall, by itself, unsuitable again in June 2022.
if it does not address “illegal and unsafe conditions” at the two juvenile halls. The DOJ secured a judgment against L.A. County back in 2021, but now says the county has not only failed to make the required improvements, it is now “regressing in areas where some progress has been achieved.”and youths are being forced to urinate in their rooms because staff will not take them to the bathroom at night.Much of the county juvenile system’s problems stem from an ongoing staffing crisis.
“Since January 13 of this year, we’ve graduated three juvenile correction officer academies, resulting in 62 staff assigned at our halls,” she said. “Our goal is to have an additional 145 graduates by the end of this year.” Sose Aslanian, a social worker with the county, said her co-workers at the juvenile halls are “being verbally and physically assaulted on a daily basis.” Most recently, an officer was stabbed by a youth at Barry J. Nidorf on April 10, according to the L.A. County Deputy Probation Officers’ Union.The BSCC’s decision to grant L.A. County more time was met with mixed reactions.
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