LOS ANGELES — The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday instructed the chief probation officer to review a range of other options for moving youth detainees out of the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, including considering some youth for release and expediting the transfer of those who have already been sentenced to other facilities.
In April, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Espinoza directed the county Probation Department to submit a plan to depopulating Los Padrinos, which has been operating for months despite state regulators ruling it unsuitable to house youth detainees.
In accordance with that order, the Probation Department on Friday submitted its proposal to the court, outlining plans to begin transferring youth out of the facility to other locations…