San Diego County reimagines youth detention with new, school-like campus
San Diego — At a glance, San Diego County’s new $130 million Youth Transition Campus looks like a school campus, with clusters of one-story buildings, angled roofs and an open layout waiting for grass and trees. A closer look reveals familiar features for juvenile detention centers, such as the institutional-grade locking doors on sleeping quarters and a 27-foot-high sound wall and fence around the property. But there are no iron bars. No razor wire, like at San Diego County’s current j...
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