Meeting the distinct needs of girls: progressive, gender-specific design for girls' detention.
Corrections Today › Vol. 67 Nbr. 5, August 2005
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Meeting the distinct needs of girls: progressive, gender-specific design for girls' detention.
Girls in the juvenile detention and revocation program in Massachusetts are currently housed in a former boys' detention unit in a state mental health facility built in the late 19th century. Little modification has been done since the state's Department of Youth Services (DYS) took it over as a girls' detention facility in the mid-1990s. Also, the current facility has few modern amenities. It has no indoor athletic space, minimal outdoor recreation space, cramped teaching spaces and no separate intake area. Operable windows with bars provid...
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