Juvenile Corrections in the News

Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Jul 21, 2006A Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted a Juvenile Detention Center guard on Thursday on charges that he beat two youths in separate incidents earlier this year. ...

Two Vets, Two Newcomers Crowd Mayor's Race
Tecumseh Countywide News, OK - Jul 20, 2006... After working for the state for 38 years, including almost 20 years at Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center, she retired - and then went to work for the Bethel ...

Teens to fight extradition
Kansas City Star, MO - Jul 20, 2006... Ambrose said one of the teens underwent psychological evaluation while being held at the Colorado juvenile center after authorities became concerned that he ...

Supervisors revoke Slay�s tax break
Meridian Star, MS - Jul 17, 2006... Aug. 7. � To hire Virginia Turnbow as a Justice Court clerk. � To advertise for bids for a new roof on the juvenile center. The ...

Sunnyside land use unresolved
Lancaster Newspapers, PA - Jul 19, 2006... planner to determine if a development with a mix of housing could be built on the peninsula if the undeveloped area around the juvenile center were expanded. ...

Arizona Daily Star, AZ - 22 hours ago... At the age of 13, Karaca burglarized a second home and was sentenced to a minimum of nine months in the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. ...

A teenager who ran away from a VisionQuest facility in Elfrida was arrested after he returned with a shotgun and fired it into the air, authorities said.

"The time they are on the pitch, is, more than anything, time they are off the streets."

No easy explanation for grandmother's slaying 
Christopher Jamison's own attorney struggles to understand how her young client could lash out with such violence. Christopher Sterling Jamison spent his 15th birthday alone in a juvenile jail. For most of his life, he had not been a troublemaker. Though some people found the youth's size intimidating -- 6 feet, 240 pounds -- he didn't cause problems in his neighborhood or act up in school. He

Arizona Daily Star, AZ - 6 hours ago... At the age of 13, Karaca burglarized a second home and was sentenced to a minimum of nine months in the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. ...

Sweet science
Beaumont Enterprise, TX - 9 hours ago... "Being here daily brings a lot of joy in my life," said Evans, 47, a juvenile corrections officer. Raised in Orange, Evans began boxing as a 10-year-old. ...

Dateline Alabama, AL - Jul 14, 2006... surprised. He said the county spent $14,396.41 of the $18,5000 budgeted this fiscal year for all aspects of the juvenile center. ...

Meridian Star, MS - Jul 17, 2006... Aug. 7. � To hire Virginia Turnbow as a Justice Court clerk. � To advertise for bids for a new roof on the juvenile center. The ...

Four nabbed in heist
Martins Ferry Times Leader, OH - Jul 13, 2006... Shaw and Justice were transported also on charges of complicity while the juvenile was transported to Sargus Juvenile Center for complicity. ...

Commission grounds plans for juvenile center
Fulton Sun,  USA - Jul 14, 2006... Officials still will consider moving the juvenile center to a rented space on a short-term basis, but constructing a new building is not a possibility for ...

The Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center is overcrowded. (Photo by Rick Foster) Too many inmates crowding Juvenile Detention Center When the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center began to fill past its capacity of 32 earlier this spring, Superintendent Jim Stevenson set a limit for how many teenagers the building would hold.

Fulton Sun,  USA - Jul 14, 2006... Officials still will consider moving the juvenile center to a rented space on a short-term basis, but constructing a new building is not a possibility for ...

Four nabbed in heist
Martins Ferry Times Leader, OH - Jul 13, 2006... Shaw and Justice were transported also on charges of complicity while the juvenile was transported to Sargus Juvenile Center for complicity. ...

Motorcyclist dies in crash on US 6
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 12 hours ago... The juveniles were apprehended. One was taken to Allen County Juvenile Center. The other was questioned and released, police said. ...

Nara teen sent to family court for arson-murder
The Japan Times, Japan - Jul 12, 2006The Nara Family Court will place him in a juvenile center in the city of Nara for two weeks to evaluate his mental condition before it decides whether he ...

Milton Daily Standard, PA - Jul 12, 2006... Among the acceptable re-uses are an extension office for the Union County Sheriff�s Department, a juvenile center or emergency services center. ...

Motorcyclist dies in crash on US 6
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 1 hour ago... The juveniles were apprehended. One was taken to Allen County Juvenile Center. The other was questioned and released, police said. ...

Four nabbed in heist
Martins Ferry Times Leader, OH - Jul 13, 2006... Shaw and Justice were transported also on charges of complicity while the juvenile was transported to Sargus Juvenile Center for complicity. ...

Martin Correctional Institution may get some use
TCPalm, FL - Jul 12, 2006... substance abuse problems. McDonough said he has requested bids from contractors to provide water to the juvenile center. Once the ...

Santa Fe New Mexican, NM - 9 hours ago... into the Camino Nuevo Correctional Center, a former juvenile-detention center in Albuquerque. The facility will be operated by Corrections Corporation of ...

South Sound briefs
The Olympian, WA - 7 hours ago... H. Duncan, 22, recently was released from the Stafford Creek Corrections Center and ... and failed to attend required sex offender treatment as a juvenile offender ...

Courting justice
The Age, Australia - 1 hour ago... for up to 12 months; supervision by a community corrections officer is ... a psychiatric nurse, disability officer, Aboriginal liaison officer and Juvenile Justice ...

Teenaged inmate who escaped from detention, pleads guilty
Saipan Tribune, Micronesia - 12 hours ago... 26, 2006 Palacios was inside the visitation room in the Juvenile Detention Facility in ... in San Antonio and brought him to the Department of Corrections in Susupe ...

Commissioners plan jail, courthouse
The Reidsville Review, NC - 21 hours ago... square-foot building, reducing space for community corrections and leaving ... Reporting Center, Guardian ad Litem, Information Technology, Juvenile Probation and ...

Saipan Tribune, Micronesia - 7 hours ago... 26, 2006 Palacios was inside the visitation room in the Juvenile Detention Facility in ... in San Antonio and brought him to the Department of Corrections in Susupe ...

Bryan College Station Eagle,  United States - Jul 14, 2006... The teen was caught, arrested and taken to the Brazos County Juvenile Detention Center. He was charged with arson, burglary of a building and evading arrest. ...

NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Aberdeen American News, SD - 4 hours ago... A female guard at a New York state juvenile detention center was raped, beaten and kidnapped at knifepoint in 2004 by one of the inmates, who escaped with the ...

Casper briefs
The Casper Star Tribune, WY - 3 hours ago... Collins, Colo. The driver of the vehicle, also a Cheyenne teenager, was sentenced to two years in a juvenile detention center. Officers ...