The facility has a capacity for 19 wards. The most recent modifications were adding unbreakable glass in the classroom, adding a third shower and bolting down of the dining room tables. The Juvenile Hall is constantly at or near capacity. On any given day there are as many as six to ten sentenced wards awaiting space in the Juvenile Hall. When capacity of the Juvenile Hall is reached, those options for out placement available to the courts and probation department are foster homes, group homes, California Youth Authority, Crystal Creek Boys Ranch, release to a guardian or electronic monitoring.
Electronic monitoring is handled by a private monitoring company.
If a juvenile ward violates the prescribed use of the monitors, the company alerts the Juvenile Hall personnel. Each Thursday the Juvenile Hall staff holds a meeting to determine which of the current wards could be released early if the facility exceeds the 19-bed capacity with new arrivals that are brought into the facility during the weekend. There are now plans for a new Juvenile Hall. A new location has been placed under contract and the county has applied for and received a state grant for construction of a new facility. The ratio of female to male wards is increasing.