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San Diego County Supervisors approved the final phases of the county’s new $205 million juvenile detention center Tuesday at the first in-person public meeting the Board of Supervisors has held since the pandemic was declared last March.
The board unanimously voted to spend $75 million for the second and third phases of the new Youth Transition Center, a campus that will replace the Kearny Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility, built in 1954.
The new youth detention center represents efforts to modernize the juvenile justice system by shifting to a more therapeutic and less punitive approach to youth detention, following earlier years of tough-on-crime punishment.