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The Cheltenham Youth Detention Center, [2] a juvenile correctional facility, was founded in the 1870s as a "House of Reformation for Colored Children" by Baltimore merchant, banker, and philanthropist Enoch Pratt on his former farm property. [3]
The Thomas J. S. Waxter Center in Anne Arundel County provides a detention program for up to 50 girls; it previously had long-term secure confinement for up to ten girls, [13] but the secure program ended in December 2011. Waxter, originally named the Southern Maryland Children's Center, was renamed in 1963 after the Director of the State ...
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 ...
The proposed realignment also calls for the closure of the 42-bed Thomas J.S. Waxter Children's Center in Laurel in 2022, and the 57-bed Alfred D. Noyes Children's Center in Rockville in 2025.
Just a year after going public, a riot broke out at Esmor’s immigration detention center near Newark International Airport in New Jersey, a holding tank for immigrants caught trying to enter the country illegally. As an organized group of inmates began to assault guards, staff abandoned their posts and fled the jail. An INS official on site ...
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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.
When 17-year-old accused murderer Zane Cesnik escaped from the CA Dillon Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Butner in September, the facility had a 61% vacancy rate. Questions remain in escape ...