Ohio

Cuyahoga County to Build New Juvenile Justice Center

By Cleveland Law Library

The Plain Dealer reports that Cuyahoga County has awarded $40 million in contracts for the construction of a new Juvenile Justice Center on the East side at East 93rd and Quincy Avenue. The project is slated for completion by 2010 and will include space for judges and a juvenile detention center. Although the location was purchased in 2000, the Plain Dealer reports that Juvenile Court Judges did not want to move from their present location until the issue was resolved in late summer 2006. The County's existing juvenile detention center, which has been plagued with issues of over-crowding, is located on Central Avenue in Cleveland.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on April 03, 2008 (boomark / email).