Support for LAist comes from
Audience-funded nonprofit news
Stay Connected
Audience-funded nonprofit news
Listen
Podcasts Take Two
The impact of LA's end to juvenile solitary confinement
solid orange rectangular banner
()
May 4, 2016
Listen 5:34
The impact of LA's end to juvenile solitary confinement
LA has the largest juvenile facility system in the country.
The corridor of a juvenile detention center.
The corridor of a juvenile detention center.
(
Photo by Richard Johnstone via Flickr Creative Commons
)

LA has the largest juvenile facility system in the country.

LA County is doing away with solitary confinement in juvenile halls and camps. The decision came Tuesday from the LA County Board of Supervisors. 

LA has the largest juvenile facility system in the country. What impact could this move have on the rest of California? 

Jyoti Nanda is a lecturer of law and director of the Youth and Justice Clinic at UCLA. She joins the show with more.

Click on the blue player above to hear the full interview