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FL: 3rd new juvenile prison to open in one county--privately run

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

3rd juvie prison to open Old detention center to become facility for high-risk youth By CHAD SMITH Thursday, June 11, 2009 ; Updated: 5:59 AM on Thursday, June 11, 2009 St. Augustine's juvenile detention center will close at the end of the month and will be replaced with a penitentiary for youthful offenders from around the state, meaning local youths will be held in Jacksonville while they await trial. The state-run St. Johns Regional Juvenile Detention Center, on Avenue D near the county jail, is being shuttered to cut costs in the Department of Juvenile Justice and to make room for Florida's growing population of juvenile convicts, department spokeswoman Samadhi Jones said Wednesday. It will become the county's third juvenile prison, ranking St...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).