Let All (Lawbreaking) Kids Be Left Behind
In the last eight years, California’s juvenile detention system, which houses an average of 4000 kids at any given time, has been the subject of 16 studies, investigations and/or audits— each exposing various aspects of the system's inadequate mental health care, abusive staff, poor educational services, appalling safety conditions, and a host of other problems. So what has been done as a result of the investigations et al to fix all these deficiencies? Precious little, reports NOAM N. LEVEY for the Los Angeles Times. Most of the facilities are “in the same woeful condition as ten years ago."