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    Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to remove California Juvenile Justice Division from corrections officials' control

    by Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times Jan 22, 2019 5 minutes

    STOCKTON, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that he intends to shift control of the state's Juvenile Justice Division away from corrections officials to government health and human services providers, a move he said is long overdue and would build on past efforts to divert children and teens from a path to prison.

    Under the proposal, first unveiled as part of his January budget, the California Health and Human Services Agency would oversee more than 660 young offenders, the vast majority held at a camp in Pine Grove and three detention centers in Stockton and Camarillo. It is a small population compared with the more than 39,000 young people detained in juvenile halls across the state and the hardest to serve because of the serious charges and the mental and medical

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