Updated June 23 New Hampshire among states grappling with closing youth detention centers As states from California to Maine consider drastic changes to youth detention centers, New Hampshire is grappling with its own facility that has been rocked by abuse allegations from years past By HOLLY RAMERAssociated Press Share CONCORD, N.H. — As states from California to Maine consider drastic changes to youth detention centers, New Hampshire is grappling with its own facility that has been rocked by abuse allegations from years past. The state’s Legislature will vote Thursday on a proposed state budget that would close the sprawling facility – housing fewer than 20 children on a campus built for 144 – by March 2023 and replace it with a new, 18-bed center.