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.[1]
Facilities
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It opened in 1889.[3] Its peak inmate population was 650. In 1938 it had been called[who?] the worst juvenile facility in the United States.[4] 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.[3] It closed in 1983.[5]
Missouri Training School for Negro Girls - Tipton - Opened in 1926, closed in 1956 and consolidated into the school in Chillicothe.[3]
Rosa Parks Center - Fulton - A center for incarcerated girls, it is a former university dormitory,[6] located at William Woods University. It holds 10-12 girls at a time.[7] WWU students are involved with the center.[8]
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.[8]
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