Second youth escapes from Los Padrinos in four months, prompting call for security overhaul

Los Angeles County moved some 275 youths to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, pictured here, in May 2023. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn plans to call for an investigation and a security overhaul at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall following a weekend escape, the second in just four months since the facility reopened.

The incident prompted Los Padrinos’ third lockdown since July. The Probation Department did not respond to a request for an update on the status of the Downey facility. Hahn’s motion states the chief probation officer and the Probation Department “must analyze the incident, determine what new security measures need to be implemented to prevent this from happening again, and implement those enhancements immediately.”to house nearly 300 juveniles without anywhere else to go following the state’s decision to shut down the county’s other two juvenile halls — Barry J. Nidorf and Central juvenile halls — over poor conditions.almost immediately.

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