Los Angeles County was forced last year to move hundreds of incarcerated youths out of two facilities deemed unsuitable by a state board and into the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.
The two facilities, Barry J. Nidorf in Sylmar and Central Juvenile Hall near downtown L.A., had been plagued by problems for years, including not enough staffing, which authorities said affected supervision, programming and other daily operations.
Now, the same board has a list of roughly a dozen concerns about Los Padrinos, including staffing shortages, as well as failures to conduct safety checks and use-of-force training.
The California Board of State and Community Corrections will decide at its Thursday meeting whether the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall is suitable to continue holding hundreds of young people. If Los Padrinos is deemed unsuitable, that could leave the county in a situation reminiscent of last spring, when it was ordered to relocate about 270 children and teens in about two months.