Juveniles: secure detention facilities.

Existing law requires the annual inspection of any jail, juvenile hall, or special purpose juvenile hall that, in the preceding calendar year, was used for confinement, for more than 24 hours, of any minor. Existing law requires the Corrections Standards Authority to establish minimum standards for state and local correctional facilities. The federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002 provides grants to the states to support state and local programs that address juvenile delinquency, as specified. The act requires that a state submit a state plan that meets specified criteria in order to be eligible for those grants. Among other criteria, the state plan must provide that certain juveniles will not be placed in secure detention facilities, must ensure that juveniles will not be detained or confined in any institution in which they have contact with adult inmates, and must provide for an adequate system of monitoring jails, detention facilities, correctional facilities, and nonsecure facilities to ensure that these and other criteria set forth in the act are met. The act also requires annual reporting of the results of that monitoring, except as specified. This bill would require the Corrections Standards Authority to inspect and collect relevant data from any facility that may be used for the secure detention of minors, in accordance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002.