Resources tagged 'Youth Correctional Facility'
Follow-Up: Providing for Housing, CYA Wards
This report presents the results of a follow-up to a February 2003 review conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of the implementation by the California Youth Authority and the Youthful Offender Parole Board of Welfare and Institutions Code section 1732.8. The statute, which became law on January 1, 2002, allows California Youth Authority wards who have served sentences in the Department of Corrections to consent to serve their remaining California Youth Authority confinement time in Department of Corrections institutions. Wards covered by the statute are termed "dual-commitment wards." The Office of the Inspector General conducted the February 2003 review and the follow-up review under the authority vested in the Inspector General by California Penal Code section 6126.