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The Georgia Department of Corrections operates prisons, transitional centers, probation detention centers, and substance use disorder treatment facilities. In addition, state inmates are also housed at private and county correctional facilities.
The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is a state agency of Georgia, United States, headquartered in Avondale Estates, near Decatur and in Greater Atlanta. [1] [2] The agency operates juvenile correctional facilities.
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.
Missouri Department of Corrections; Montana Department of Corrections; Nebraska Department of Correctional Services; Nevada Department of Corrections; New Hampshire Department of Corrections; New Jersey Department of Corrections; New Mexico Corrections Department; New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
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 State of Georgia passed a rewritten death penalty law in 1973. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia death penalty was constitutional. [19] In June 1980 the site of execution was moved to GDCP, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the original one. The original chair was put on display at the Georgia State Prison.
The Ohio Department of Youth Services had been planning to replace the Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility, which has open dorm-style housing, with a youth prison with individual cells.
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.