Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indicted probation Officer Lenton Abram listens to Judge Ronald Coen before pleading no contest Tuesday in the "gladiator fight" ...

A juvenile detention center in California is having a reckoning. Multiple detention officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall are facing charges after it was discovered that they knew the minors were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teenager who said he fought other kids in return for fast food in Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall poses for a portrait. (Jason Armond ...

The recent indictment of 30 correctional officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, California for orchestrating “gladiator fights” among incarcerated youth provides a window into the brutality ...

Thirty Los Angeles County probation officers have been charged with child abuse for allegedly staging "gladiator fights" between youth detainees being housed at a troubled juvenile detention facility.

For the record:6:58 p.m. April 7, 2026: An earlier version of this article included a photo that misidentified a probation officer as Taneha Brooks. More than a year after California Atty. Gen. Rob ...