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  2. Wyoming Department of Family Services - Wikipedia

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    The division also manages juvenile probation and the state's two training schools, or juvenile correctional facilities, for youth. [2] The division's two juvenile facilities are the Wyoming Boys' School in Mc Nutt, [3] unincorporated Washakie County, [4] near Worland, [5] and the Wyoming Girls' School in unincorporated Sheridan County, near ...

  3. List of law enforcement agencies in Wyoming - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Wyoming.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 90 law enforcement agencies employing 1,691 sworn police officers, about 317 for each 100,000 residents.

  4. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    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.

  6. American juvenile justice system - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.

  7. List of counties in Wyoming - Wikipedia

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    Parts of Sheridan County, Johnson County, and Fremont County. Big Horn Mountains, a mountain range extending into northern Wyoming: 12,018: 3,137 sq mi (8,125 km 2) Campbell County: 005: Gillette: 1911: Parts of Weston County and Crook County. John Allen Campbell (1835–80), first governor of the Wyoming Territory (1869–75) 47,498: 4,797 sq ...

  8. Gillette, Wyoming - Wikipedia

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    Gillette (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ l ɛ t /, jih-LET) is a city in and the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. [7] The town was founded in 1891 as a major railway town on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad .

  9. Nearly 300 sue over alleged sexual abuse at L.A. County ... - AOL

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    A 2010 investigation by The Times found that at least 11 L.A. County juvenile probation officers had been convicted of crimes or disciplined for inappropriate conduct involving current or former ...