Last year, Governor Jerry Brown proposed closing down all state-run youth prisons and eliminating the state's Division of Juvenile Justice. Counties have taken responsibility for the better part of roughly 10,000 offenders under the age of 26. But the last 1,100 young inmates still in state hands require a lot of careful attention.
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