About Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall
Sitting on a 26-acre lot in Downey, Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall is centrally located in Los Angeles County and is near the Probation Department’s Headquarters.
Los Padrinos has a rated capacity of 603 persons, with 442 actual beds.
The campus consists of 37 buildings totaling 194,000 square feet. The buildings includes 19 living units, nine dormitories, kitchen facilities, classrooms, recreational areas, a library, infirmary, laundry, chapel, and a gym.
LOS PADRINOS HISTORY
1957: Los Padrinos opens with 10 living units of 20 beds each to house minors from the Southwest area of Los Angeles County and relieve overcrowding at Central Juvenile Hall.
1963: A girls’ division is opened.
1975: A two-story, 80-bed facility is constructed for additional housing, as well as for a family treatment program and intensive care unit.
1976: A new building houses three juvenile court departments and a Probation administrative wing.
2004: Two old living units are torn down and replaced with two 120-bed buildings for housing. Additional construction adds a mental health clinic, a parking garage, five guard shacks and a generator facility.
2019: The County Board of Supervisors closes Los Padrinos because of a declining juvenile hall population.
May 2, 2023: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approves a plan to reopen Los Padrinos and move all pre-disposition youth operations there from Central and Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Halls.
June 2023: County construction crews complete work for immediate occupancy. Work includes repainting, repairing, and upgrading several living units with new plumbing, security cameras, bathroom privacy screens, windows, and updating kitchen facilities.1
July 18, 2023: The Probation Department completed its relocation of pre-disposition youth from its Barry J. Nidorf facility into Los Padrinos Juvenile halls.