Juvenile Detention Center

After several years of planning and construction, this juvenile detention center opened in the 1990s. In addition to being one of the most modern facilities of its kind in the country, it was designed with security in mind. The multi-million-dollar detention center has no cell blocks and plenty of space for the nearly three dozen individual and isolation cells. By order of the courts, juveniles between the ages of 12 and 17 were brought here for charges ranging from truancy to burglary or theft.

To fund the detention center, a daily rate of $75 to $120 was negotiated with neighboring counties for bed space. Young offenders were maintained in individual holding rooms within a larger room where supervisors had a good view from an upper floor. Anyone sent to the detention center was required to keep up with their schoolwork, and teachers were available daily to help them with their studies. The juvenile detention center closed in the 2000s due to a lack of funding. As of today, the building has been abandoned for a longer period than it was in use.

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