The Authority is limited in its expenditures to funds specifically made available for its use.

shall process and pay pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 29700) of Division 3 of Title 3 of the Government Code.

judge of the juvenile court having jurisdiction over the minor, of the chief probation officer of the county, and of the director, present a significant risk of violence or escape. They may not be used for the detention of a person who is alleged to be or has been adjudged to be a person described by Section 300 or Section 601.

subdivision (b) of Section 707.

transferable professional skills known as “soft skills,” social emotional learning, transitional life skills, and conservation jobs skills. Division of Juvenile Justice participants who successfully complete program curriculum shall qualify for a paid full-time placement within a local community corps program, and may be considered for a placement in the California Conservation Corps. This program shall be considered for expansion to additional Division of Juvenile Justice facilities if effective at reducing recidivism among participants.

The director may, from any moneys made available for such purposes, allocate funds to local governmental and nongovernmental agencies to share in the cost of local correctional programs which are partially financed by federal grants.

The director may establish and maintain at any institution or camp under his jurisdiction a canteen for the sale to persons confined therein of candy, nutritional snacks, toilet articles, sundries, and other articles. The canteen shall operate on a nonprofit basis. However, if sales should exceed costs, the surplus shall be deposited in a special fund, to be designated “Benefit Fund.” Any moneys contained in such fund shall be used for the benefit of the wards resident at the institution or camp.

The director may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into contracts with colleges, universities, and other organizations for the purposes of research in the field of delinquency and crime prevention and of training special workers, including teachers, institution employees, probation and parole officers, social workers and others engaged, whether as volunteers or for compensation, and whether part time or full time, in the fields of education, recreation, mental health, and treatment and prevention of delinquency.

The director may collect statistics and information regarding juvenile delinquency, crimes reported and discovered, arrests made, complaints, informations, and indictments filed and the disposition made thereof, pleas, convictions, acquittals, probations granted or denied, commitments to and transfers and discharges from places of incarceration, and other data and information useful in determining the cause and amount of crime in this State, or in carrying out the powers and duties of the authority.

All officers and employees of the State and of every county and city shall furnish to the director upon request such statistics and other information within their knowledge and control as the director deems necessary or proper to be collected pursuant to the provisions of this section.

The Director of the Youth Authority may deposit any funds of wards committed to the authority in the director’s possession in trust with the Treasurer pursuant to Section 16305.3 of the Government Code or in trust in insured bank, savings and loan, or state or federal credit union accounts bearing interest at rates up to the maximum permitted by law, and for the purpose of deposit only, may mingle the funds of any ward with the funds of other wards.

Such funds together with the interest paid thereon may be paid over to the ward upon his or her request, and shall be paid over to the ward upon his or her discharge from the Youth Authority.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this section and Section 1752.81, the Youth Authority may assess a ward’s trust fund for actual costs for the ward’s support, maintenance, training and treatment.

The Director of the Youth Authority may authorize the sale of articles of handiwork made by wards under the jurisdiction of the authority to the public at Youth Authority institutions, in public buildings, at fairs, or on property operated by nonprofit associations. The cost of any state property used for the manufacture of articles shall be paid for out of funds received from the sale of the articles. The remainder of any funds received from the sale of the articles shall be placed in the ward’s trust account pursuant to Section 1752.8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

The Department of the Youth Authority, with the approval of the Director of General Services, may lease land at any institution under its jurisdiction, at a nominal rental, to any nonprofit or eleemosynary corporation. The terms of the lease shall require the corporation to construct a house of worship on such land, and to maintain and operate the same primarily for the use of Youth Authority wards and staff. All work as an employee on such house of worship performed under contract or by day labor shall be subject to the provisions of Division 2, Part 7, of the Labor Code.

The director may, from time to time, and as often as occasion may require, but not to exceed two meetings in any one calendar year call into conference the probation officers of the several counties, or such of them as he may deem advisable, for the purpose of discussing the duties of their offices.

The actual and necessary expenses of the probation officer incurred while traveling to and from and while attending the conferences shall be a county charge; provided, prior approval of the board of supervisors has been obtained.

For the purpose of carrying out its duties, the department is authorized to make use of law enforcement, detention, probation, parole, medical, educational, correctional, segregative and other facilities, institutions and agencies, whether public or private, within the state. The director may enter into agreements with the appropriate public officials for separate care and special treatment in existing institutions of persons subject to the control of the department.