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On January 18, 2008, Governor Martin O'Malley announced plan to spend $200 million constructing new juvenile detention facilities, including one in Baltimore. Advocates of the new prison suggest that BCDC is unsafe and unhealthy for juveniles, and that the detained youth need their own building. [ 1 ]
The Thomas J. S. Waxter Center in Anne Arundel County provides a detention program for up to 50 girls; it previously had long-term secure confinement for up to ten girls, [13] but the secure program ended in December 2011. Waxter, originally named the Southern Maryland Children's Center, was renamed in 1963 after the Director of the State ...
Eager Street Academy (previously Baltimore City Detention Center, School No. 370 [4]) is a public, alternative middle-high school serving youth who are incarcerated, located in the Penn-Fallsway neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. [1]
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Finally, investigators from the Justice Cabinet’s Internal Investigations Branch told the committee they have substantiated six reports of a juvenile justice employee sexually abusing a youth in ...