Youth Correctional Facilities

COL 11292010 CH. 20 DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH AFFAIRS The Department of Youth Affairs within the Executive Branch shall maintain and operate facilities for the temporary or continuing care, custody or detention, or commitment and rehabilitation of youth and may arrange for use of private homes for such care or detention.

(a)Direct Supervision by the Department of Youth Affairs. Wards of such correctional facilities shall be under the direct supervision of the Department of Youth Affairs in order to apply more advantageously the salutary effect of home and family environment upon them, and also in order to secure a better classification and segregation of such wards according to their capacities, interests and responsiveness to control and responsibilities, and to give better opportunity for reform and encouragement of self-discipline in such correctional facilities.

(b)Rules. The Department of Youth Affairs shall promulgate, pursuant to the Administrative Adjudication Law, such rules as may be necessary for the guidance of all youth correctional or detention facilities, which rules shall be filed with the Legislative Secretary.