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Despite reports that the Sylmar detention center was a hotbed for drug use, youth were removed from the treatment unit partly because of pushback from attorneys.
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.
‘When I’m not here, I’m always talking about the program.’