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Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term ...
The first juvenile correctional institution in the United States opened in 1825 in New York City. By 1917, juvenile courts had been established in all but 3 states. [ 94 ] It was estimated that in 2011 more than 95,000 juveniles were locked up in prisons and jails in the United States (the largest youth prisoner population in the world). [ 95 ]
The New York City Department of Juvenile Justice was the department of the government of New York City [2] that provided secure and non-secure pre-conviction detention facilities for youths aged between 7 and 16. [3]
On Tuesday, the governor said the first of the three state youth prisons to close is Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility in Highland Hills. It'll be replaced with four, 36-bed facilities.
At the time of her 2003 pleading, Correctional Services Corp. no longer had contracts in New York. But an investigation by New York’s Temporary State Commission on Lobbying found widespread evidence of earlier undisclosed gifts to state lawmakers, including free rides and dinners. Correctional Services Corp. agreed to a settlement in which ...
Apr. 14—Bernalillo County's Youth Services Center is the largest juvenile detention center in the state. Along with detaining youth from Bernalillo County, the detention center accepts children ...
Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility in Cleveland. The Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS) operates three prisons for juveniles adjudicated of felony charges.
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.