Essential California: Troubles roil L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall

Ahead of a state inspection, officials abruptly closed the facility and transferred all of its detained youths elsewhere.

The troubles that have long beset Los Angeles County’s Central Juvenile Hall flared over the weekend whenand hurriedly transferred about 140 minors, some with mental health and serious behavior issues, to Barry J. Nidorf Hall in Sylmar.

The abrupt move came days before a scheduled state inspection, after Probation Department officials discovered that they had failed to correct problems at the hall that were identified in an inspection last month. State regulators hadafter a September inspection found them unsuitable to house young people.

One probation official told The Times that a review of footage from the facility’s security cameras before this week’s scheduled follow-up inspection revealed that, among other shortcomings, safety checks were not being performed when children were alone in their rooms, the official said. Chief Probation Officer Adolfo Gonzales said Central Juvenile Hall could reopen in less than three months, but the latest setback may add urgency to aL.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis, who co-wrote a motion heard Tuesday for the board to study the possibility of fully closing the facility, slammed the transfer as “chaotic” and “unacceptable.”

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