The Los Angeles County Probation Department faces another hurdle in its plan to depopulate Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall after state inspectors deemed another youth facility unsuitable. The Board of ...

Aerial view of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Nine people were hospitalized Wednesday morning because of possible drug exposure inside Los Padrinos ...

Ambulances responded to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey on Wednesday for possible overdoses involving multiple people. Rich Prickett reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on July 2, 2025.

Police arrested a nonprofit worker on Monday after he allegedly smuggled drugs into Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall. The Los Angeles County Probation Department said investigators arrested Alejandro Lopez ...

Los Angeles County will pay $2.7 million to a teenager whose assault at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall led to the discovery of a series of “gladiator-style” fights and the indictment of 30 probation ...

DOWNEY, Calif. (CNS) -- A judge on Friday approved plans by the county Probation Department to draw down the number of youth detainees being held at the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, ...

The Los Angeles County Probation Department on Friday submitted a proposed plan to move dozens of young people out of the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey in keeping with a state finding ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- More than a dozen detention services officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of child endangerment and abuse, conspiracy, and ...

A Los Angeles County judge ordered Friday, April 18, that officials develop a plan to depopulate the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, calling the facility “unlawful” and demanding that in-custody ...

A Los Angeles County judge took a major step Friday toward shutting down Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, months after a state oversight body found it “unsuitable” to house youth. Judge Miguel ...