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Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term ...
Juvenile detention centers in the United States, prisons for people under the age of 21, often termed juvenile delinquents, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term basis while awaiting trial or placement in a long-term care program.
Juvenile detention centers in the United States (1 C, 98 P) Y. Young Offender Institutions (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Youth detention centers"
In 2010, approximately 70,800 juveniles were incarcerated in youth detention facilities alone. [1] As of 2006, approximately 500,000 youth were brought to detention centers in a given year. [2] This data does not reflect juveniles tried as adults. As of 2013, around 40% were incarcerated in privatized, for-profit facilities. [3]
Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.
A detention center, or detention centre, is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean: A jail or prison, a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment after being convicted of crimes; A structure for immigration detention; An ...
Jefferson Regional Juvenile Detention Center (JRJDC), Louisville McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center (MRJDC), Paducah Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center (WRJDC), Bowling Green
A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, usually as punishment for various crimes.