L.A. County Juvenile Probation Outcomes Study

It took $400,000 and nearly four years of work to un­cov­er, but ex­perts now know a ba­sic fact about Los Angeles County’s ju­ven­ile de­lin­quency sys­tem: One-third of pro­ba­tion­ers are re-ar­res­ted with­in a year of their re­lease, ac­cord­ing to study.