So, it's easy to get on board with Shelby County commissioners who want to build a $54 million juvenile detention and assessment center to replace the facility on Adams Street — an idea that ...

The new Youth Justice & Education Center now in the design stage ... Michael is the Judge of Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) will turn operations of the Youth Justice and Education Center in Shelby County over to Shelby County Juvenile ... the FOX13 Memphis app to receive ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A bill making its way through the state legislature would force Shelby County Juvenile Courts to use the hearing room within the Youth Justice Education Center, or YJEC.

Now, parents are telling us the situation is not much better at the lock-up that holds juvenile offenders. The detention center off Old Getwell Road in South Memphis is where young people under 18 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The juvenile detention center for Shelby County Juvenile Court runs drills twice a month to protect against problems that have plagued a Nashville detention center this week.

With Memphis and Shelby County Schools ... that is on Old Getwell Road? - Yeah, the juvenile detention facility, the Youth Justice and Education Center is on Old Getwell Road.

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