| Department of Youth Services |
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| Abbreviation | DYS |
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| Operations jurisdiction | Ohio |
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| www.dys.ohio.gov |
The Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government[1] responsible for juvenile corrections. It has its headquarters in Columbus.[2]
Facilities
As of 2013 DYS had 525 prisoners in four facilities, with one of them scheduled to close in 2014. Circa 2002 it had 1,949 prisoners in 10 facilities.[3]
Open facilities (all house boys):
Former facilities:
- Mohican Juvenile Correctional Facility (Hanover Township, Ashland County, near Perrysville) - Located in the Mohican State Forest, between Cleveland and Columbus.[7] Housed the Louis Bromfield High School
- Maumee Youth Center (Liberty Center) - Closed in 2001.[8]
- Training Institute of Central Ohio (Columbus).[9]
- Buckeye Youth Center (Columbus) - Closed in 1993.
- Ohio River Valley Juvenile Correctional Facility (Franklin Furnace) - facility currently leased to Lawrence County for conversion to a temporary county jail.[citation needed]
- Marion Juvenile Correctional Facility - Closed in 2009.[10]
- Riverview Juvenile Correctional Facility (Delaware County) - Originally founded as the State Reform and Industrial School for Girls in 1869, it went through several name changes before being renamed Riverview. It was located across the road from Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility. Closed in 2003.[11]
- Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility (Delaware County) - Formerly served as a male reception center and houses all girls who are in the custody of the DYS - It is located on the Scioto River.[12] The facility, which housed the William K. Willis High School, had 247 employees and 38 inmates, with 18 females and 20 males as of 2013. DYS announced Scioto would close in the spring of 2014; DYS stated that the facility was very old and needed repairs with a cost of $5.6 million. Boys were to be moved to other DYS facilities.[3] All girls were moved to community-based centers, and As of 2015[update] DYS no longer has a dedicated facility for adjudicated girls.[13]
