By Don Jorgensen – KELO-TV News – January 13, 2025
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Minnehaha County Juvenile Detention Center, or JDC, has served its purpose for decades, but the county is in the process of building a brand new and much bigger Juvenile Justice Center.
After over two years of planning, the county broke ground last April on a new $50 million Juvenile Justice Center, which sits right next to the current facility that was built in 1969.
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“We did a study on which would be the best route to take, try and renovate the existing facility or build new, while we were doing that we found it was going to cost just as much to renovate it as it was to build so we chose to build at that time,” JDC director Jamie Gravett said. . . . The current facility has long hallways of rooms. The new Juvenile Justice Center will have classrooms, a gym, and pods where they can house eight juveniles, which they say will make it safer for the youths.