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A story in the Los Angeles Times caught my eye. The title tells most of the story: California to close its largest juvenile prison .” The institution is the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino. They will convert it to an adult prison and eventually transfer the young offenders to other programs in the state, mostly in county facilities closer to their families. Stark has been part of what most experts consider one of the dinosaurs” of juvenile institutions, the California…