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Across the state, dozens of youthful offenders are moving back to their home counties to finish their sentences. A hearing last week in a Scripps Ranch murder case shed light on the county's scramble to patch together programming
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted to relocate youths from Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall to a probation camp in the Santa Monica Mountains. With the May 1 deadline fast approaching, resistance mounts.
George Gascón had previously banned charging juveniles as adults in all cases, sparking heavy criticism. Now he says he's open to it in crimes involving "severe violence."
When George Gascón campaigned to become L.A.’s next district attorney, he led with his progressive foot forward. But a key policy of his will now change.