Ventura Youth Correctional Facility
November 10, 2011
Ventura Youth Correctional Facility Female Treatment Program
We are in receipt of your notice letter dated November 2, 2011, and received in this office on November 3, 2011 regarding the CDCR intent to combine the Assessment Process, Mental Health Residential Unit and Core Treatment Unit into one living unit known as the Female Treatment Program at Ventura Youth Correctional Facility...
November 10, 2011
DJJ Activation of Low Core Male Unit at Ventura Youth Correctional Facility (VYCF)
Due to the closure of the Southern Youth Correctional Reception Center Clinic (SYCRCCC) and the need for additional male beds, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) will activate a low core male unit at VYCF, effective November 28, 2011. The additional program will be incorporated with current existing low core male programs at VYCF...
August 18, 2011
Protesters complain about DJJ facilities
A civil-rights group will stage a protest Sunday in front of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in Camarillo, alleging the facility and others like it are abusing their juvenile wards.
"We need to call attention to these abuses," Abel Habtegeorgis, a spokesman for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, said this week...
LINK - VCStar.com
December 3, 2009
Ventura officially removed from possible conversion to adult health care prison
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today announced that the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility is no longer being considered for a possible medical facility for adult inmates. The facility will continue to be used for the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
After months of considering many potential sites, the federal court-appointed health care receiver and CDCR announced recently that facilities to provide mental health and medical care to upwards of 2,800 inmates would be constructed in Stockton, San Joaquin County…
LINK - CDCR.ca.gov
June 10, 2008
Questions aren’t answered about jail site proposal
Workers and residents pressed for answers Monday about a proposed adult prison hospital at the current site of a juvenile correctional facility in Camarillo, as a state lawmaker increased her criticism of the plan.
Camarillo residents and workers at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, which would be closed to make way for the hospital, held separate meetings Monday with state corrections officials who said they are not in charge of the proposal and could offer little concrete information about it.
The site of the youth facility north of Highway 101 near several farms and the Sterling Hills community is on the short list of potential sites for the adult medical complex that would serve high-risk offenders in need of mental and medical care, and which is still in the exploratory phase…
LINK - VenturaCountyStar.com
June 1, 2002
Management Review: Ventura Youth Correctional Facility
This report presents the results of a management review audit conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of Superintendent Eugenia Ortega and the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility. California Penal Code, Section 6051 requires the Office of the Inspector General to conduct a management review audit of any California Youth Authority superintendent who: (1) has held his or her position for more than four years; or (2) has been recently appointed, unless the Inspector General determines that the audit is not warranted at that time. A management review audit is a review intended to assess the superintendent's performance in carrying out the essential functions of the facility.
