Word: whitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California Youth Authority, an agency within the state's Department of Correction, was established in 1941 to handle the disposition of offenders under 21. The increasing rate of juvenile crime and recidivism and the exposure of scandalous conditions in the Fred C. Nelles reform school in Whitter by a public committee in 1940 prompted the state to create the Youth Authority. In May of 1940, the American Law Institute had issued a model law for the creation of an independent agency within state government to administer youthful offenders. The most controversial aspect of the Institute's proposal was that...