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The DJJ provided services to juvenile offenders, ranging in age from twelve to 25, in facilities and on parole, and worked closely with law enforcement, the courts, district attorneys, public defenders, probation offices and other public and private agencies involved with the problems of youth.
2 cze 2023 · Eighty-one years after California incarcerated its first 'ward,' the state's notoriously grim youth prison system is shutting down. But will young offenders fare any better in county...
5 lip 2023 · On June 30, CDCR announced the last youths in the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) were transferred to counties, completing juvenile justice realignment as required under Senate Bill 823.
Their goal was as personal as it was quixotic: to shut down the California Youth Authority. At its height decades ago, the network of youth prisons held more than 10,000 young people, in conditions so inhumane that over one 18-month stretch in 2004, 56 teens attempted suicide.
14 sie 2023 · Reports of unsanitary living conditions, physical and sexual abuse, and even fight clubs run by staff plagued the state for years, and in 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 823, legislation that would close California’s state-run youth prison system.
On June 30, 2023, California closed its state-run youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). DJJ, formerly the California Youth Authority (CYA), had a 132-year history of neglect and abuse.
22 lut 2023 · On September 30, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 823 requiring California’s state youth prisons to close by June 2023 (State of CA, 2020). SB 823 ushers in a new era of localized juvenile justice that is founded on community-based services and incarceration alternatives.
