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The Adobe Mountain School, located north of Phoenix, is a secured detention facility for juvenile offenders.
The Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections is planning for a new juvenile correctional facility. The department leases the Adobe Mountain School secure care facility property, located north of Phoenix, from the State Land Department. That lease expires in seven years.
In the meantime, the Department of Juvenile Corrections is soliciting a “programing and planning consultant” for a new juvenile correctional facility, according to a request for quotation posted to the state procurement website.
“The Department is in need of a programming and planning consultant to assist in milestone planning for a new juvenile facility location within a Metropolitan area in Arizona and to help identify the type of juvenile correctional facility the Agency will need,” the request states. “The Department has approximately 7 years left on its state land lease a