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  2. Central Juvenile Hall - Wikipedia

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    Central Juvenile Hall (also known as Eastlake Juvenile Hall or Central) is a youth detention center in Los Angeles County.Central houses both boys and girls. [1] The Central Juvenile Hall complex was originally established in 1912 as the first juvenile detention facility in Los Angeles County. [2]

  3. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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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, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...

  4. List of immigrant detention sites in the United States

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    This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...

  5. The detention center, like other county juvenile lock-ups in Ohio, is only used for pre-trial detention. No one there has been convicted or sentenced, but they have been accused of everything from ...

  6. 'Building a prison for children': Overcrowded youth detention ...

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    Oct. 16—Only a handful of spots for new offenders are left at the state's medium- and maximum-security juvenile facilities in the wake of site overcrowding problems and staffing shortages.

  7. Kentucky's juvenile justice system is in crisis, audit says ...

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    At the Adair County Juvenile Detention Center alone, with a capacity of 80 kids, pepper spray was deployed 41 times in the first 10 months of 2023. The justice cabinet took issue with some of the ...

  8. Oregon Youth Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) is a state agency of Oregon, headquartered in Suite 500 of the 530 Center St. NE building in Salem. [1] The agency operates juvenile corrections . A juvenile crime prevention task force chaired by then- Attorney General of Oregon Ted Kulongoski recommended the creation of a separate juvenile corrections agency.

  9. Kids Behind Bars: Chaos, violence and neglect plague youth ...

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    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.