-iWatch, January 25, 2012 by Susan Ferriss
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/01/25/7961/fight-brewing-over-historic-california-plan-close-last-three-youth-prisons
Krisberg said that in the end, he’d prefer to see California keep a few hundred beds for juveniles at the state level and enact strong policies and provide adequate funding for monitoring and improving local treatment.
-San Francisco Chronicle, January 31, 2012 by Barry Krisberg
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/31/EDFM1N0TJU.DTL
In California, the state is moving away from treating the DJJ youth as if they are irredeemable and is trying to increase counseling and treatment programs. Yet most of the youth still exercise in cages and their rooms are prison cells with open toilets in the middle. Many county facilities also are designed to have the look and feel of prisons.