Los Angeles County Probation Department's Campus Kilpatrick in the Malibu hills, pictured before its opening in 2017. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Campus Kilpatrick opened for its first group ...

LA County moved all female and gender-expansive youth to a therapeutic facility in Malibu, enhancing specialized care and ...

Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, where almost half of the Los Angeles County Probation Department employees who staff the facility fail to show up for work on any given day. (Los Angeles Times ...

Including Campus Kilpatrick, the county has 19 “camps” — not day camps or summer camps, but institutions that hold preteens, teenagers and sometimes young adults who have been found guilty (although ...

Campus Kilpatrick, the $53 million juvenile detention camp where Los Angeles County is spearheading a reform of its juvenile justice system, is facing scrutiny following a scathing report from a ...

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Six months after demanding that youth offenders be transferred from the troubled Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to a campus-like facility in the hills above Malibu, the Los Angeles County ...

L.A. County now effectively has three juvenile halls instead of one — and all three are out of compliance with state law.

Nearly a decade ago, juvenile justice leaders and L.A. County officials borrowed ideas from programs in Missouri and Santa Clara County and designed a therapeutic approach to juvenile rehabilitation ...