After eight months of closed doors, the Regional Youth Services Center in Hempfield is reopening. The Westmoreland County juvenile detention facility was shuttered after a series of troubling state inspections, including one involving a teenager’s attempted suicide. There was a near riot. There were poorly trained employees — in addition
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
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Westmoreland commissioners said there is growing frustration over delays to fully reopen the county’s juvenile detention center program. The 16-bed detention center at the Regional Youth Services Center in Hempfield was closed in June following a series of state inspections that cited the facility for staffing and training issues. It