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The Cheltenham Youth Detention Center, [2] a juvenile correctional facility, was founded in the 1870s as a "House of Reformation for Colored Children" by Baltimore merchant, banker, and philanthropist Enoch Pratt on his former farm property. [3]
Savage Mountain Youth Center, Garrett County; Countywide facilities: Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, Baltimore City [5] Cheltenham Youth Facility, Prince George's County - serves Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, and St. Mary's counties [6] Lower Eastern Shore Children's Center (LESCC), Salisbury - serves the Eastern ...
Juvenile detention facilities are often overcrowded and understaffed. [16] The most infamous example of this trend is Cheltenham center in Maryland, which at one point crowded 100 boys into cottages sanctioned for a maximum capacity of 24, with only 3–4 adults supervising. Young people in these environments are subject to brutal violence from ...
Citing population, demographics and location, the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services plans to close the 30-bed Green Ridge center in fiscal 2027, as well as the six-bed Mountain View ...
Thompson Academy, the facility for boys, was one of YSI’s most troubled institutions until it closed last year as part of what the state called its “Long Range Program Plan” to phase out larger juvenile facilities. It was also one of the most profitable. With 154 beds, the contract was worth $13 million.
The Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx has been forced to take older and more violent suspects due to the state’s Raise the Age statute that upped the age of criminal responsibility. J.C. Rice
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.
Dozens of children who were sent to juvenile detention centers and similar facilities in Pennsylvania suffered physical and sexual abuse including violent rapes, according to four related lawsuits ...