Juvenile Detention Centers

Boy confessed to killing father, sheriff says
Duluth News Tribune, MN - 17 hours ago... Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman said today. The boy is being held in the Arrowhead Juvenile Center in Duluth on a preliminary charge of murder. ...

Search Continues for Belmont County Teen
WOWK, WV - 23 hours ago... 17-year old Samuel David Adkins II, Columbus, was a resident of Oak View Juvenile Center and was attending high school when he slipped out of class and stole ...

Chase leads thorugh culvert
Martins Ferry Times Leader, OH - 22 hours ago... Community Hospital. After being checked, he was taken to the Sargus Juvenile Center, according to the Bellaire police chief. Cooperating ...

Police: 13-Year-Old Shoots Teenage Girl During Robbery
Click10.com - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- West Palm Beach police say a 13-year-old boy shot a teenage girl during a robbery attempt Sunday. Police say the boy and an older male suspect went into a Subway sandwich shop Sunday night and demanded money. A police

Where prosecutor candidates stand
Lafayette Journal and Courier - Pat Harrington is challenging Jerry Bean, Tippecanoe County's prosecutor for the past 15 years, in the May 2 Republican primary. In advance of the election, the Journal and Courier posed 10 questions to each candidate. Here are their full responses

Search Continues for Belmont County Teen
WOWK - The search continues for a student of St. Clairsville High School who ran off two weeks ago. However, the car he stole has been found. 17-year old Samuel David Adkins II, Columbus, was a resident of Oak View Juvenile Center and was attending high

2 teen boys arrested at separate schools
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - The Allen County Sheriff s Department arrested two teenage boys Monday on unrelated charges at different schools. Police were called to Woodlan Junior-Senior High School, 17215 Woodburn Road, on a report of a missing digital camera. A probation

Let's move beyond safety-pin solutions
Indianapolis Star, United States - 15 hours ago... The county also would add 300 jail and 10 infirmary beds and make other improvements at the jail, the juvenile center and the coroner's office. ...

Better security needed at juvenile center
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 12 hours agoI found the news brief, Girls at juvenile detention center found possessing pot (April 5), beyond belief. If marijuana, and ...

Juvenile center accord details told
Chicago Tribune, United States - 12 hours agoBy Jeff Coen. A team of four experts would develop a new improvement plan for the troubled Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention ...

Path to redemption
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Apr 16, 2006... and entering. The Franklin County judge commits 14-year-old Jimmy Thivener to a juvenile jail, where he serves eight months. Twenty ...

Bossier to turn over operations of juvenile jail
KTBS, LA - Apr 17, 2006Operators of a juvenile detention center in Red River Parish will take over operations at the beleaguered juvenile jail in Bossier Parish. ...

Kerr juvenile jail has new director
San Antonio Express (subscription), TX - Apr 18, 2006Kevin Stanton was hired to run the Kerr County juvenile detention center Tuesday, one week after his offer to take on the duties cost him his post as the ...

4 Harlem Boys Will Be Tried as Juveniles
New York Times, United States - Apr 14, 2006... In Family Court, where juveniles are tried, the maximum sentence is five years in a juvenile jail, though that can be extended up to age 21. ...

Parents still concerned after foiled school plot
Tacoma News Tribune - Gloria Metcalf is pleased police and school officials foiled an alleged plot to attack Key Peninsula Middle School, where her 12-year-old son attends seventh grade. But she s sure that catching a handful of kids will not stop future plans for

Podiatrist can kick his feet up again, thanks to good deed
Daily Southtown - Wayne Tillman swears he had never before placed his bank bag on the roof of his car. And Nicholas Bean had never cut down 52nd Avenue in Oak Lawn during his morning commute from Chicago's South Side to the western suburbs. Because they both did

4 Harlem Boys Will Be Tried as Juveniles
New York Times - Four Harlem teenagers accused of killing a New York University student by chasing him into a car's path during a robbery attempt will be tried as juveniles rather than adults, the Manhattan district attorney's office said yesterday. The teenagers

Student gun plot shocks Key Center
Tacoma News Tribune - At O Callahan s Pub & Grill in Key Center, Layne Packard sings the theme song to Wanda the Clown as he recounts watching the TV show when he was growing up. Packard alluded to the amount of violence on TV today as a reason for violent acts

Rooms With A Phew
Tampa Bay Online - This feature requires the Macromedia Flash Plugin. Please visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer to download this plugin. POLK CITY - Nearly 200 young offenders are living in a Polk County detention center with mold problems so severe that

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Tampa Tribune - POLK CITY - Nearly 200 young offenders are living in a Polk County detention center with mold problems so severe that school personnel were ordered to stay away. More than half of the 37 staff members, who work for the county school district, became