By Celest Fremon, Witness LA, October 2, 2020
At approximately 4:42 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, September 30, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 823, a budget trailer bill that will lead to the closure of the state’s troubled and violent youth prison system.
Yet the bill is far more than that. It is also is designed as an historic reform measure intended to fundamentally transform the way that the state and its 58 counties approach youth justice.
Furthermore, the bill includes the creation of a new state office, which justice advocates believe will be able to kick-start real reform.
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