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2. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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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, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...

3. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Juvenile detention facilities are often overcrowded and understaffed. [16] The most infamous example of this trend is Cheltenham center in Maryland, which at one point crowded 100 boys into cottages sanctioned for a maximum capacity of 24, with only 3–4 adults supervising. Young people in these environments are subject to brutal violence from ...

4. Category : Juvenile detention centers in the United States

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   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.

5. 'Building a prison for children': Overcrowded youth detention ...

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   The state's other juvenile detention center, Green Hill School in Chehalis, surpassed its capacity months ago and has kept operating well above its stated maximum. This week, Green Hill's ...

6. Q&A with Bernalillo County juvenile detention facility deputy ...

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   Apr. 14—Bernalillo County's Youth Services Center is the largest juvenile detention center in the state. Along with detaining youth from Bernalillo County, the detention center accepts children ...

7. New Shelby County juvenile detention center officially opens ...

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   Shelby County dignitaries and the Shelby County Sheriff's Office officially opened the doors to the new juvenile detention facility.

8. Texas Juvenile Justice Department - Wikipedia

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   Several of the juvenile detention centers are public and privately operated facilities. Texas Juvenile Justice Department maintains records and registry of the registered facilities in operation. Detained young offenders can only be placed in detention centers that are registered by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, under the Texas Family ...

9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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   Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.