The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors agreed on July 8, 2003, to move its youth population to a juvenile detention center, finding that the Men’s Central Jail is unfit for detainees under eighteen. The youths will be moved within sixty days, Sheriff Leroy D. Baca told Human Rights Watch in a meeting on July 23.
Los Angeles Youths to Be Moved from Adult Jail
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