A new $40 million Ingham County juvenile justice center, including detention for 24 youths, could be built in south Lansing, a few miles from the current facility.
It’s necessary, said Judge Shauna Dunnings, because the current, 40-year-old youth center is outdated, too small and would be difficult at best to expand while the detention center and youth programs still operated.
However, the new plans would not expand the number of beds, despite a chronic need for more…