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| Judge orders crackdown on juvenile halls |
| By San Francisco Chronicle |
| Published: 03/13/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - A San Francisco judge ordered state officials Wednesday to crack down on counties whose juvenile halls are overcrowded, decrepit or providing substandard education or health care. Ruling in a lawsuit filed by a Sacramento woman whose teenage son was a juvenile hall inmate, Superior Court Judge Patrick Mahoney issued an injunction requiring the state agency that inspects youth lockups every two years to order counties to meet legal standards or shut the centers down. Juvenile halls house youths under 18 serving sentences for misdemeanors, others awaiting trial in Juvenile Court, and some who are held for noncriminal violations such as truancy. Slightly more than 10,000 youths were confined in juvenile halls as of 2006, said Mark Chavez, a lawyer who filed the lawsuit in April 2006 on behalf of Candace Waters. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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