The Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) is a state agency of Missouri that operates juvenile correctional facilities. A division of the Missouri Department of Social Services, DYS has its headquarters in Jefferson City.
History Circa the 1970s Missouri began shifting its juvenile corrections into a system that emphasizes smaller secure centers and with less emphasis on punishment. By 2006 many states were trying to copy Missouri's system.Perlman, Ellen. "A Looser Lockup" (Archive). Governing. January 2006. Retrieved on December 23, 2015.
Facilities
DYS facilities include:"Institutional Operations Facilities List." Missouri Office of Administration. Retrieved on December 28, 2020. Camp Avery Park Camp - Snow Hill Township, Lincoln County Fulton Treatment Center - Fulton Gentry Residential Treatment Center - Cabool Green Gables Lodge Treatment Center - Mack's Creek Hillsboro Treatment Center - Hillsboro Hogan Street Regional Youth Center - St. Louis Langsford House Youth Center - Lee's Summit Missouri Hills Youth Center - St. Louis Mount Vernon Treatment Center - Mount Vernon New Madrid Bend Youth Center - New Madrid Northwest Regional Youth Center - Kansas City Rich Hill Youth Development Center - Rich Hill Riverbend Treatment Center - St. Joseph Sierra-Osage Treatment Center - Poplar Bluff W. E. Sears Youth Center - Poplar Bluff Watkins Mill Park Camp - Lawson Waverly Regional Youth Center - Waverly
Girls' centers: Wilson’s Creek - Springfield
Former facilities Missouri Training School for Boys - Boonville It opened in 1889."Annual Report Fiscal Year 2014" (Archive). Missouri Division of Youth Services. Retrieved on December 19, 2015. p. 32. Its peak inmate population was 650. In 1938 it had been called the worst juvenile facility in the United States."Our History" (Archive). The Missouri Approach, Missouri Division of Youth Services. Retrieved on December 23, 2015. By 1948 violent prisoners had killed two boys. As a result, Governor Phil M. Donnelly removed 71 prisoners from the training school and relocated them to an adult prison. He dismissed the board of the State Board for Training Schools, the juvenile correctional authority. It closed in 1983."Annual Report Fiscal Year 2014" (Archive). Missouri Division of Youth Services. Retrieved on December 19, 2015. p. 34. Missouri Training School for Girls - Chillicothe It opened in 1889, and closed in 1981. Missouri Training School for Negro Girls - Tipton - Opened in 1926, closed in 1956 and consolidated into the school in Chillicothe. Rosa Parks Center - Fulton - A center for incarcerated girls, it is a former university dormitory,Charton, Scott. "Missouri juvenile justice practices praised, and copied" (Archive). Associated Press. Monday March 7, 2005. Retrieved on December 23, 2015. located at William Woods University. It holds 10-12 girls at a time."House Resolution No. 4910" (Archive). Missouri House of Representatives. Retrieved on December 23, 2015. WWU students are involved with the center."William Woods University (Fulton, MO) Rosa Parks Center" (). The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Retrieved on December 23, 2015. DYS and WWU agreed to the joint project in 2000, and the center opened in January 2001 and shut down due to lack of state funding in August 2020. Babler Lodge - Wildwood Shut down August 2020 Montgomery City Youth Center - Montgomery City Closed August 2020 Northeast Community Treatment Center - Mexico Closed about 2016 Delmina Woods, Forsyth, Missouri - Permanently Closed Cornerstone Group Home, Columbia, Missouri - Permanently Closed in 2020
References
Further reading Dubin, Jennifer. "Metamorphosis: How Missouri Rehabilitates Juvenile Offenders" (Archive). American Educator. Summer 2012. p. 2-11.
External links
Missouri Division of Youth Services The Missouri Approach Publications by or about Missouri Division of Youth Services at Internet Archive.