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NH: Officials pushing to fill youth detention center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Officials pushing to fill youth detention center By MARK HAYWARD New Hampshire Union Leader October 22, 2010 MANCHESTER ? With New Hampshire's only state-run juvenile detention center less than half full, a lawmaker warned Thursday that officials have to find a way to fill the empty beds. State Rep. Pat Dowling, R-Derry, spoke at the John H. Sununu Youth Center, where an ad-hoc committee held a public hearing on its recommendation that the state Women's Prison not be moved to the center. Dowling said officials considered the center for a women's prison because its census is so low. "What do we do with all this empty space?" Dowling said. "If we don't want the women's prison here, we must fill these pods." Reports earlier this year put the average census at the 144-bed Youth Center at 60...continue to full post

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