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The Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is a state agency of Virginia, headquartered in the Main Street Centre building at 600 East Main St. in Richmond. [1] The DJJ operates 30 court service units and one juvenile correctional center.
Appalachian Detention Center Honaker: 1066 Baskerville Correctional Center Baskerville: 488 Bland Correctional Center Bland: 621 Brunswick Work Center Lawrenceville: 708 Buckingham Correctional Center: Dillwyn: 1,100 Caroline Correctional Unit Hanover: 137 Central Virginia Correctional Unit #13 Chesterfield: 250 Coffeewood Correctional Center ...
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.
Oct. 16—Only a handful of spots for new offenders are left at the state's medium- and maximum-security juvenile facilities in the wake of site overcrowding problems and staffing shortages.
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.
To fill the ranks, Gov. Andy Beshear and the legislature this year authorized large pay raises at the juvenile detention centers, boosting the starting pay for correctional officers from what ...
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
The 15-year-old from Columbus, who pleaded guilty to two felonies, was awaiting a transfer to prison at Franklin County's juvenile detention center May 7 when he exchanged words with another kid.