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Louisville Metro Youth Detention Center basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 502-574-6177
This facility is for juvenile residents.
Community Based Services provide a variety of community-based court support services to assist the courts and juvenile justice system in delivering the highest quality of supervision for youth while they await disposition of their court cases. These least restrictive services include Court Process Unit, Court Liaison, Home Incarceration Program, and the Home Supervision Program.
Secure Detention Services fosters a safe environment providing structured supervision and care of youth pending disposition, by offering programs to further their educational, physical, psychological, and social development.
The Louisville Metro Youth Detention Center, on the corner of 8th and Jefferson Street, is the location of the nationally accredited Secure Detention Program. The Secure Detention section of the facility houses pre-adjudicated juveniles, needing the most secure form of detention prior to their court date. The Secure Detention Program Services provided to detained youth include the following:
- Medical Services
- Educational Services
- Social Services
- Recreational Services
- Volunteer Services
Click here to obtain information about Admissions and ReleaseTransfer Procedures
Behavior Management
Secure Detention implements a behavior management/token economy system as a tool to maintain and manage its overall program. Positive behavior is rewarded with tokens (play money) which a youth may use to purchase hygiene items, snacks, writing paper, etc.
Youth earn tokens by displaying positive interaction with peers and staff, participation in the school program and following the general rules of the facility.
- Within the program there are various levels which the youth can attain, and with each higher level there is the possibility to earn additional privileges.
Click here to be directed to the Secure Detention Resident Handbook
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI)
JDAI is an initiative that was designed to support the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s vision that all youth involved in the juvenile justice system have the opportunity to develop into healthy and productive adults. Jefferson, Fayette, and Campbell counties were selected as pilot sites to implement the JDAI initiative with hopes of expanding the initiative later across the state. To fully support this initiative, Jefferson County’s DMC Committee (Disproportionate Minority Confinement Advisory Board) transitioned into the JDAI collaborative committee.
Through an interrelated set of 8 core strategies, JDAI sites have been able to safely reduce detention numbers and increase alternative programs across the nation. The eight core strategies are listed below:
- Collaboration among juvenile justice agencies, community organizations and other governmental agencies
- The use of data in making policy and case-level decisions
- Objective instruments to guide detention decisions
- Operation of a continuum of non-secure detention alternatives
- Case processing efficiencies to reduce the time between arrest and case disposition; improvement of conditions of confinement
- Safe reductions of special populations (e.g. violations of probation, warrants and cases awaiting placement)
- Racial/ethnic fairness in policy and case-level decision-making
- Improving conditions of confinement
Click any of the links below to view items associated with the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative:
Inspection Instrument for JDAI
Purpose of Youth Detention Population Management
Youth Detention Population Management Agreement
visitation Info
Metro Youth Detention Center – Visitation
Visitation Schedules vary according to the program. Depending on the program that a juvenile has been assigned to, visitation rules may differ. In addition, there are separate visitation rules for attorneys and other juvenile justice partners. To view schedules according to program (and accompanying visitation rules) please select the appropriate visitation schedule below.
SECURE DETENTION – Visitation Schedule
ONLY PARENTS AND/OR LEGAL GUARDIANS ARE ALLOWED TO VISIT
LIMIT OF TWO (2) VISITORS PER RESIDENT
***Please call 574-6854 to determine which section your child has been assigned to***
Visitation will take place by section.
SATURDAY/TUESDAY 3 North VISITATION
Section Three (3) North (Units 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D)
Section Three North (Units 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D) visitation will be SATURDAY from 3:30 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.
- After 3:20 p.m. no one will be allowed to enter for visitation.
Section Three South (Units 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D) visitation will be TUESDAY from 5:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
- After 5:20 p.m. no one will be allowed to enter for visitation.
MONDAY/SATURDAY 2 South VISITATION
Section Two (2) South (Units 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H)
Section Two South (Units 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H) visitation will be MONDAY from 5:30 p.m.- 6:15 p.m.
- After 5:20 p.m. no one will be allowed to enter for visitation.
Section Two South (Units 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H) visitation will be SATURDAY from 4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
- After 4:20 p.m. no one will be allowed to enter for visitation.
Click here to view the visitation schedule for the Secure Detention program
Click here to view the visitation rules and dress code for the Secure Detention program
VISITORS ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS
(includes attorneys, probation officers, DJJ workers, and other official visitors).
