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The Juvenile Justice Services division operates juvenile correctional facilities. [2] The division's administrative offices are in Las Vegas. [3] The Caliente Youth Center, serving boys and girls, is located in Caliente. [4] The Nevada Youth Training Center, serving boys, [5] is located in unincorporated Elko County, [3] near Elko. [5]
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.
Lovelock Correctional Center: Pershing: Nevada State Prison: Carson City: Closed on May 18, 2012 Northern Nevada Correctional Center and Stewart Conservation Camp: Carson City: Northern Nevada Transitional Housing Washoe: Southern Desert Correctional Center: Clark: Southern Nevada Correctional Center: Clark: Closed in 2008 Florence McClure ...
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.
Just weeks after an investigation uncovered violence and trauma in youth prisons, Mike DeWine asked experts to "think big" in search for fixes.
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.
The death row for women is in the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center (previously Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center). [7] The execution chamber at Ely State Prison opened in 2016. [8] Previously it was located in a former gas chamber in Nevada State Prison in Carson City. Nevada executes inmates via lethal injection. [4]
The 15-year-old from Columbus, who pleaded guilty to two felonies, was awaiting a transfer to prison at Franklin County's juvenile detention center May 7 when he exchanged words with another kid.