Posted on 03/12/2023 3:19:55 PM PDT by devane617
At Los Angeles County’s troubled juvenile halls and probation camps, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish between imminent rescue and impending collapse. For example, the Probation Department is transferring 100 less-experienced officers from the field to supplement a juvenile hall staff so diminished by vacancy, injury, fear and contempt for management that barely 11% of officers come to work.
Also, 16 “credible messengers” — trained volunteers who as preteens or teenagers spent time under probation’s jurisdiction, or who have other relevant experience — will report this week to the dangerous Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and the newer, safer, but still struggling Campus Kilpatrick in Malibu to offer young offenders the benefit of their experience. They are being sent by the county’s new Department of Youth Development, which was first envisioned as an agency that could take over all of probation’s juvenile operations as early as 2025. At present, that transfer seems unlikely to happen.
Conditions at Sylmar (almost universally referred to by probation staff, youths and families as Barry J) are dire. Officers work nearly 24-hour shifts to cover for their missing colleagues, leaving them exhausted and short-tempered. Classes and activities are often canceled because teachers and contract service providers are too afraid to come in. Interior walls are covered with graffiti, windows are broken, living quarters are trashed. Juveniles who are accused of crimes and awaiting court hearings have little to do each day but play video games or — because security is lax despite razor wire, guards and X-ray machines — get high on illicit substances that somehow find their way inside. Earlier this month, at least two juveniles overdosed on fentanyl at Barry J and were administered Narcan.
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Oh, pshaw.
They are all just working remotely! They can collect their checks and say they are working.
WHY bother administering Narcan??
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