2010年2月22日 · Closing the Chino facility, which had been the state’s largest for juvenile offenders, is the first of two cost-cutting moves. The changes are designed to improve efficiency of the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). The 400 youth previously housed at Chino were consolidated into five other DJJ-operated facilities and two fire camps.

2017年7月15日 · Gladiator School depicts the Heman G. Stark Juvenile Prison — previously known as YTS or Youth Training School — as it stands years after being closed by the California government. These photos...

The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), was a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provided education, training, and treatment services for California's most serious youth offenders, until its closure in 2023.

In January 2004, two 18 year olds committed suicide. They could not tolerate the horrible day to day problems at the California Youth Authority. They were found hanging in their cells. At one CYA facility in Chino, prison guards used mace four times a day on children.

The lesser-known forces that brought down ‘CYA’ California halted all new intakes to state youth facilities in June of 2021, and will shut its last youth prison by June 30 of this year. Getting there has taken a decades-long collaboration among attorneys, justice advocates, the formerly incarcerated, legislators and reform-minded ...

2020年10月21日 · During the bad old days of the mid-1990s through to the early 2000s, when California’s youth prison system was known as the California Youth Authority, or CYA, the system was plagued by a mind-numbing level of controversy and scandal that included a wave of youth suicides and graphic reports of horrific abuse by staff.

The CYA became part of the newly formed Youth and Adult Correctional Agency. The Legislature removed the state’s young offender paroling authority, the Youth Authority Board, from the CYA and renamed it the Youthful Offender Parole Board (YOPB).

DJJ, formerly the California Youth Authority (CYA), had a 132-year history of neglect and abuse. For generations, DJJ subjected young people to inhumane living conditions, a culture of violence, rampant staff abuse, and painful separation from loved ones. It …

These fact sheets, pamphlets, press releases, and other materials describe the programs and services of the California Youth Authority (CYA), which provides education, training, and treatment services for juvenile offenders and assists local justice agencies with their efforts to prevent and control crime and juvenile delinquency.

2019年12月19日 · Youth Training School (known formally as Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility) had a reputation for mayhem, violence and murder that earned it the name Gladiator School. It closed in 2010....