In April, three teenagers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall suffered drug overdoses, highlighting ongoing issues within L.A. County's juvenile facilities. Despite a 2019 settlement aimed at improving conditions, frustrations persist as the Probation Department has shown no significant progress. Attorney General Rob Bonta indicated he may take court action to put the department into receivership, criticizing the lack of reform that jeopardizes the youths' safety and well-being. The incident underscores a pattern of failures in the care and management of juvenile detainees in the county's facilities.
"It should have been a normal day at school... But lessons at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall were interrupted when three teenagers suffered drug overdoses on April 10."
"The emergency was the latest in a years-long series of fiascoes within L.A. County's juvenile halls,... prompting calls for Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to intervene."
"Bonta said he is preparing 'to take steps' to ask a court to place the Probation Department in receivership, essentially wrestling away control of the agency from leaders who failed reforms."
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