The officers allegedly “allowed” and even “encouraged” 69 fights to occur between over 140 youths at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in California Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

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Rather than working toward rehabilitation and eventual reintegration into society, nearly 150 children at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles County were allegedly subjected to what's been ...

“Officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall have a duty to ensure the safety and well-being of those under their care. Instead, the officers charged today did just the opposite — overseeing ...

Thirty officers at a Southern California juvenile detention facility have been charged for their role in facilitating ...

The charges, unsealed Monday, follow a more than yearlong investigation into the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles County sparked by a video showing multiple officers doing ...

A grand jury indictment alleges the officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles County allowed and sometimes encouraged nearly 70 fights to take place between July 2023 and December 2023.

At least one of the officers who was indicted, Ramses Patron, is a director at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, meaning he supervised the staff involved in the incidents. His attorney, Tom Yu ...

A Los Angeles County grand jury indictment unsealed Monday revealed 30 Probation Department employees, ranging from detention service officers to at least one supervisor, have been charged with ...