Because the states up north will get the most votes by which party they are by which is democratic, and the people in smaller states who might be conservatives don’t get as many votes , so the electoral college was formed to make it fair
California is phasing out its state-run youth prisons and shifting the responsibility to counties, 162 years after lawmakers created the first alternative to housing children as young as 12 alongside adults in San Quentin and Folsom state prisons