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Delaware County officials announce citizen board to help oversee troubled Juvenile Detention Center Vinny Vella, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Two months after a judge ordered the closure of the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center amid allegations of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, county leaders have created an oversight board for the facility, which remains shuttered but is expected to reopen.
Applications for the Board of Managers of Juvenile Detention became available Thursday morning, according to County Councilmember Kevin Madden. Six residents of Delaware County will join three members of the county council and the county solicitor on the board.
“It is vital that new and varied perspectives be brought to the question of rehabilitation and the custody of juvenile offenders,” Madden said. “And it is through this board that these perspectives will be accessed and acted upon.”
A judge has ordered the Delaware County Juvenile Justice Center shut down after explosive allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse surfaced. Read more here.
All children housed at the Delaware County Juvenile Justice Center were ordered transferred immediately after allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse.