November 19, 2011
In California, most youthful offenders stay in juvenile detention
Although California law technically allows juvenile offenders, under very specific circumstances, to be housed in adult jails, it rarely happens.
Most juvenile offenders are housed either in county juvenile detention facilities or one of the three state facilities that house serious offenders being prosecuted in juvenile court.
Bill Sessa, spokesman with the Division of Juvenile Justice of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in Sacramento, said the state doesn't house juveniles in adult prisons under any circumstances...
LINK - VCStar.com
