Laws that were enacted to provide community-based alternatives to the state’s youth prisons may actually be fostering a new “shadow” juvenile system in which officials are circumventing transparency laws behind closed doors.
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Confronted over abuse, California is bringing 116 kids home from faraway programs. Counties are scrambling
Dec. 18, 2020
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Maxwell, shown near her Stockton home, says staff at out-of-state facilities where she was sent abused children in their care.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Josiah, 19, at Ph
oenix Green Park in Sacramento, spent one year at Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo, Mich., where a teen died after Sequel staff piled on him.Salgu Wissmath / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
County officials across California are scrambling to find new homes for more than 100 children with mental health and behavioral issues, following the state’s landmark decision to stop shipping these young people to faraway facilities.