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The New Youth Detention Facility in Baltimore City is a jail planned by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS). The facility is slated to be built between the 600 blocks of East Monument and East Madison Streets. The jail is designed to house between 180 and 230 youth facing trial as an adult. Currently, these youth are incarcerated along with adults in the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC). Youth charged as adults are not covered by the provisions for "Sight and Sound Separation" required by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. ==Background== The state of Maryland announced plans to build new facilities for children and women in 2007, amidst investigations by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) calling BCDC "deliberately indifferent" to the condition of inmates.〔 These plans were tentative; the DOJ demanded maintenance for existing facilities, but not the creation of new ones. One of the biggest concerns, then and now, is the inadequacy of available health care. On January 18, 2008, Governor Martin O'Malley announced plan to spend $200 million constructing new juvenile detention facilities, including one in Baltimore. Advocates of the new prison suggest that BCDC is unsafe and unhealthy for juveniles, and that the detained youth need their own building. They additionally suggest that a special youth facility would be able to focus more on rehabilitation. The average number of juveniles housed in BCDC at any given time has declined from 92 to 47 since 2007 (a peak year).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Youth Detention Facility (Baltimore City)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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