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Unincorporated East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States: Status: Closed: Opened: October 1, 1948: Closed: January 26, 2014: Managed by: Formerly: Louisiana Department of Corrections, Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice: Website: Jetson Center for Youth Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
The full official title of the agency is Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Youth Services, Office of Juvenile Justice (DPSC/YS/OJJ). [1] The agency has its headquarters in the first floor of the Louisiana State Police Building in Baton Rouge. [2] The agency's current head is E. Dustin Bickham.
The juvenile centers that were operated by the department included: [35] Bridge City Center for Youth (BCCY) - Bridge City, unincorporated Jefferson Parish [35] Louis Jetson Center for Youth (JCCY) - unincorporated East Baton Rouge Parish, near Baton Rouge and Baker [35] A. L. "Red" Swanson, Sr. Center for Youth (SCCY, later SCCY-MON) - Monroe ...
The act created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice to administer grants for juvenile crime-combating programs (currently only about US$900,000 a year), gather national statistics on juvenile crime, fund research on youth crime and administer four anti-confinement mandates regarding ...
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.
The murder rate in Baton Rouge for 2011 was the 8th highest in the nation among large cities at 27.6 per 100,000. [8] [9] Baton Rouge also had the 25th highest violent crime rate in the U.S. in 2011 with a rate of 1,065.7 violent crimes per 100,000, surpassing New Orleans at 792 per 100,000. [10]
In the late 1940s, Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish became a consolidated city/parish with a mayor/president leading the government. It was one of the first cities in the nation to consolidate with county government. The parish surrounds three other incorporated cities: Baker, Zachary, and Central.
The Louisiana State Police (French: Police d’Etat de Louisiane) is the state police agency of Louisiana, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state, headquartered in Baton Rouge. [3] It falls under the authority of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections .