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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, 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 ...

3. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Juvenile detention totals from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. [4] Juvenile convicts working in the fields in a chain gang, photo taken circa 1903. The system that is currently operational in the United States was created under the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.

4. American juvenile justice system - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. 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.

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. Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center - Wikipedia

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   The historic Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School was established by an act of the state legislature in 1907 and opened in 1909 as the first juvenile detention facility in North Carolina. The school was named for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. The institution is located three miles (5 km) from Concord. Walter Thompson ...

8. West Texas State School - Wikipedia

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   The West Texas State School (WTSS, originally the West Texas Children's Home of Pyote) was a juvenile detention facility operated by the Texas Youth Commission that closed on August 31, 2010. [1] It was located in unincorporated central Ward County, Texas, [2] [3] along the southwestern edge of Pyote, [4] on Interstate 20 [5] between El Paso ...

9. A Path Out Of Trouble - The Huffington Post

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   Getting involved with the justice system is one of the fastest ways to end a teenager’s potential for becoming a successful adult. Being jailed as a juvenile makes a kid less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to be incarcerated later in life, according to a 2015 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.