-California Watch, March 23, 2011 by Louis Freedberg
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/state-keep-some-youth-correctional-facilities-open-9407
“Our county juvenile justice system is akin to the Wild West,” said. “There are no real standards, and as a result, practices can be good in some places and horrible in other places.”
-The American Prospect, March 29, 2011 by Steve Yoder
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=closing_the_door_on_juvenile_lockups
Barry Krisberg … applauds the move away from state lockups. But he says giving control to localities is “fraught with complicated issues,” and he fears that we’re in danger of creating a system of “justice by geography. You have a range of local options in California,” he says. “Some are not too bad; some are horrendous.”