Officers had allowed and in some cases encouraged fights between teens being held at a detention center in Downey, Calif., the state’s attorney general said.

The officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall are also charged with child endangerment, conspiracy, and battery, California's Attorney General said.

Thirty probation officers have been charged with allowing — and even encouraging — scores of “gladiator fights” at a California juvenile detention center involving at least 143 young inmates. The charges,

A Los Angeles County grand jury indictment unsealed Monday revealed 30 Probation Department employees, ranging from detention service officers to at least one supervisor, have been charged with allowing — and even encouraging — 69 fights,

Dozens of officers at a juvenile detention center are being charged for facilitating "gladiator fights" between youth detainees.