There was nothing to prevent two teens facing criminal charges from just walking out of the Westmoreland County-
administered shelter where they were staying, the county’s 
juvenile detention director said Monday. The teens, Braedon M. Dickinson, 16, who was charged last year with second-degree murder, and Robert Cogdell, 14, who is
Schuylkill County commissioners will pay up to $225 an hour for a Pittsburgh legal firm to provide services for the Human Resources Office.
The Gabriel Ferra law firm will perform the services for the.
Crowding of juvenile detention centers throughout the state resulting in a critical shortage of available secure-detention beds for youths awaiting adjudication has been on the radar of officials in Berks
In August 2021, the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center in Allegheny County closed its doors. It wasn’t just that the county decided to get out of the business of detaining young people who are accused or adjudicated of crimes. The closure was not the county’s idea. It came after the Pennsylvania