Sentence examples for juvenile lockup from inspiring English sources

The other four were taken to a juvenile lockup.

And I wasn't sent to juvenile lockup, but placed in the adult lockup with the prostitutes.

Just down the road is a medium-security prison and a juvenile lockup.

"Heller was so young," Goldstein writes, "that, during one of our busts, he was thrown in juvenile lockup".

The presentence report didn't mention that when Jackson was in juvenile lockup the state had found his I.Q. to be just above the threshold for mental retardation.

He dropped out of school in the eighth grade, and spent a year in juvenile lockup after helping to assault and rob a guy who, he claimed, had beat up a friend's sister.

The rate of confirmed youth-on-youth assaults more than tripled at juvenile lockups statewide in the five years after lawmakers approved the overhaul.

Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland and South Dakota, among other states, have all had scandals in recent years over the abuse or deaths of children in juvenile lockups.

The aim, reformers say, is to keep low-level offenders out of juvenile lockups and adult criminal court, and instead build up community programs that might better rehabilitate them.

In the 1990s, states and localities began sending more and more children to juvenile lockups, often for months, while they awaited trial for nonviolent offenses or even noncriminal behavior like being "unruly".

This figure only includes regular, adult prisons, not jails, juvenile lockups, or military prisons.