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Clayton Transitional Center Forest Park: Minimum 379 Adult males Coastal Transitional Center: Savannah: Minimum 262 Adult males Columbus Transitional Center Columbus: Minimum 140 Adult males Macon Transitional Center Macon: Minimum 156 Adult males Metro Transitional Center Atlanta: Minimum 234 Adult females Phillips Transitional Center Buford ...
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.
The DJJ operates six youth development campuses (YDCs), which house children sentenced to or committed to the DJJ by juvenile courts. The DJJ also operates 22 regional youth detention centers (RYDCs), which house children awaiting trial in a juvenile or superior court or awaiting placement into another facility. [4]
The center is a 60-bed, all-male secure center for DC's most serious youth delinquents. [39] The $46 million facility [40] opened in 2009 [41] in unincorporated Anne Arundel County, Maryland, [42] near Laurel. New Beginnings replaced the Oak Hill Youth Center, [40] which was located .5 miles (0.80 km) away [41] in unincorporated Anne Arundel ...
At a Florida Correctional Services Corp. facility called Cypress Creek, north of Tampa, six juveniles escaped between 2000 and 2001. In 2001, at a youth prison run by the company in Nevada, juvenile inmates rioted and took over the facility.
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.
There are 92 GDC facilities in the vicinity of Macon/South, while there are 27 GDC facilities in the vicinity of Atlanta/North. There are 35 state prisons in the vicinity of Macon/South and there are five state prisons in the vicinity of Atlanta/North. The agency stated "Elimination of regional offices accentuates need to be in central GA."
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.