Juvenile services department to move detained girls, again

Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services will relocate girls awaiting court hearings or long-term placement this month from a single unit of the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center to a center that will house all girls in the agency’s residential care. 

DJS Move of Some Girls from Waxter Starting to Show Results

ANNAPOLIS – Treatment and conditions for girls in the juvenile justice system are gradually improving nearly a year after the state separated and moved the most serious offenders, but work remains to be done, according to advocates and state officials.…

Conditions at Juvenile Facility Deteriorate Despite High Hopes

Conditions at the J. DeWeese Carter Children’s Center, where girls committed to the Department of Juvenile Services were moved, have deteriorated within the past month, said an independent monitor.