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The move comes just days before a deadline to move some 300 incarcerated youths out of the facility if the L.A. County probation department failed to meet requirements related to safety, staffing and other matters.
A state board will take up whether the 26-acre facility in Downey is suitable to hold incarcerated youths after L.A. County's scramble last year to transfer hundreds of them there from other facilities in a span of roughly two months.
Officials have also installed razor wire on the walls to address escape attempts.
Officials have also installed razor wire on the walls to address escape attempts.