Final preparations are underway as Westmoreland County’s juvenile detention center is set to reopen Wednesday. The center will have four beds available at first while staff members get their footing, said director Rich Gordon. “Some of our staff have never worked in corrections, some of our staff have never seen
Westmoreland County’s juvenile detention center is expected to reopen this month after being largely closed since last June because of staffing shortages and operational problems, officials said Wednesday. The 16-bed facility that houses juvenile criminal offenders closed following a series of state inspections. Those findings prompted county leaders to shutter
When a 16-year-old charged with second-degree murder fled from house arrest in November, Westmoreland County authorities scrambled to find a place to house him. The county’s juvenile detention center had closed temporarily in June amid staffing shortages. Calls to numerous private and publicly owned facilities throughout Pennsylvania that house children
The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Monday on four proposed bills aimed at improving the juvenile criminal justice system in the aftermath of the notorious kids-for-cash scandal.