JJC envisions the creation of a world class model youth facility that is on the cutting-edge, represents a paradigm shift in the use of secure confinement (from punishment and retribution to treatment and rehabilitation), and an icon to the movement of juvenile justice reform. Importantly, these new facilities cannot—and must not—be, look, and feel institutional. Instead, these facilities should be small, client-focused, residential-like, and imbued with a diversity of programs and needed social services for effective youth rehabilitation and development. Aligned with this vision is the desire to design a secure setting that provides a small group of youth requiring higher levels of supervision the safe, residential, therapeutic, and trauma-informed environment needed to work for their healing, compassion, and restoration
NJ Juvenile Prototype Facility
3 Locations, NJ
48 Beds
53,000 sf