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The N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton is one of the CYA's two maximum security lockups and holds those aged 18–24, and was described as the home for the worst-of-the-worst juvenile offenders. Chaderjian, also known as "Chad", earned national headlines in 2004 "when guards were captured on film kicking and punching wards."
The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility was in essence [clarification needed] a prison for youth located on Whittier Boulevard, in Whittier, California.Operated by the California Youth Authority, now part of California Department of Corrections, it once quartered young people incarcerated for law-breaking until it was closed by the state of California in June 2004. [2]
According to the Department's official Web site, "Currently there are 33 adult correctional institutions, 13 adult community correctional facilities, and eight juvenile facilities in California that house more than 165,000 adult offenders and nearly 3,200 juvenile offenders."
It is staffed and operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. CDCR will not renew the lease for California City Correctional Facility, terminating the contract in March 2024 and ending the use of that facility as a state prison. [5] California Correctional Institution: CCI Kern: 1954 2,783 3,516 126.3%
On Tuesday, the governor said the first of the three state youth prisons to close is Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility in Highland Hills. It'll be replaced with four, 36-bed facilities.
An October 2022 riot at the Ohio Department of Youth Services' Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility in Massillon started when a new employee opened a cell door for a teen who asked for water.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) operates 35 prisons in California, with a design capacity of 85,083 incarcerated people. CDCR both owns and operates 34 of the state prisons; it additionally operates California City Correctional Facility, a prison leased from CoreCivic.
In February 2022, the Gault Center, a national juvenile justice advocacy group, sent a four-page letter to the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division chief, Steven Rosenbaum.