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Garden State Youth Correctional Facility is a New Jersey Department of Corrections state prison that houses young adult offenders ages 18-30, located in the Crosswicks section of Chesterfield Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The facility opened in 1968 and has a maximum capacity of 1511 inmates. [1]
The New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission is a state agency of New Jersey, headquartered in Ewing Township, near Trenton. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The commission, under the office of the Attorney General of New Jersey , provides youth correctional services.
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. The Juvenile Justice and ...
A 2016 Juvenile Law Center report found that, in Indiana and at least 21 other states, families can “pay their way out” of juvenile justice system. Juvenile injustice: Low-income families pay ...
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First opened in 1934, the mixed-security facility is owned and operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. The facility houses violent young offenders, as well as those incarcerated on narcotics charges. As of August 7, 2009, the prison had an inmate population of 1,235. [2]
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 ...
South Dakota prosecutors filed more juvenile delinquency petitions in fiscal year 2023 than at any time in nearly a decade, according to an annual report.