Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice

Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
Agency overview

Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia
Jurisdiction	Georgia, United States
Headquarters	Avondale Estates
Website	Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice

The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is a state agency of Georgia, United States, headquartered in Avondale Estates, near Decatur and in Greater Atlanta.^[1]^[2] The agency operates juvenile correctional facilities.

The department was under federal oversight for 11 years after the U.S. Justice Department investigated reports of overcrowding and abuse. In 2009 the U.S. Department of Justice ended oversight of the DJJ.^[3]

Facilities

The DJJ operates six youth development campuses (YDCs), which house children sentenced to or committed to the DJJ by juvenile courts. The DJJ also operates 22 regional youth detention centers (RYDCs), which house children awaiting trial in a juvenile or superior court or awaiting placement into another facility.^[4] Both types of facilities are grouped into four regions: northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest.^[5]

Youth development campuses

The youth development campuses include:^[6]

Augusta Youth Development Campus (Augusta)
Eastman Youth Development Campus (Dodge County, partially in Eastman, partially in an unincorporated area)^[7]
Macon Youth Development Campus (Unincorporated Bibb County)
Muscogee Youth Development Campus (Columbus)
Savannah River Challenge Program (Unincorporated Screven County)
Sumter Youth Development Campus (Unincorporated Sumter County)

Macon, which opened in 1970, is all girls and the only YDC facility for girls in the DJJ.^[8]

Regional youth detention centers

A youth is assigned to regional youth detention centers according to the county of offense and that county's catchment area.^[9] The RYDCs include:^[10]

Albany Regional Youth Detention Center (Albany) - Dougherty and Terrell counties
Augusta Regional Youth Detention Center (Unincorporated Richmond County) - Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes counties
Blakely Regional Youth Detention Center
Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center
Martha K. Glaze Regional Youth Detention Center (formerly Clayton Regional Youth Detention Center) (Lovejoy) - Clayton and Fayette counties
Crisp Regional Youth Detention Center
Aaron Cohn Regional Youth Detention Center
DeKalb Regional Youth Detention Center (Unincorporated DeKalb County) - DeKalb County
Eastman Regional Youth Detention Center
Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center
Griffin Regional Youth Detention Center (Griffin) - Henry and Spalding counties
Gwinnett Regional Youth Detention Center (Unincorporated Gwinnett County) - Gwinnett and Rockdale counties
Judge Thomas Jefferson Loftiss II Regional Youth Detention Center (Unincorporated Thomas County) - Brooks, Colquitt, Echols, Grady, Lowndes, and Thomas counties
Macon Regional Youth Detention Center (Unincorporated Bibb County) - Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Peach, Twiggs, Upson, and Wilkinson counties
Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center (Unincorporated Cobb County) - Cobb County
Metro Regional Youth Detention Center (Unincorporated DeKalb County) - Fulton County
Paulding Regional Youth Detention Center
Bob Richards Regional Youth Detention Center
Sandersville Regional Youth Detention Center
Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center (Savannah) - Chatham and McIntosh)
Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center (formerly Dalton Regional Youth Detention Center) (Dalton) - Catoosa, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, and Whitfield counties
Waycross Regional Youth Detention Center
Rockdale County Youth Detention Center

References

^ "Contact." Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Retrieved on August 8, 2010. "3408 Covington Highway Decatur, Georgia 30032"
^ "Official Zoning Map^{[permanent dead link]}." City of Avondale Estates. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.
^ "GA Dept. of Juvenile Justice No Longer Watched By U.S. Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine" WSAV-TV. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.
^ "Facilities & Programs Overview." Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.
^ "Youth Development Campuses & Regional Youth Detention Centers by Region." Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.
^ "YDCs." Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.
^ "Eastman city, Georgia Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.
^ "Macon Youth Development Campus." Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Retrieved on December 14, 2015.
^ "Regional Youth Detention Center Catchment Areas." Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.
^ "RYDCs." Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Retrieved on August 8, 2010.