The sign outside the Department of Juvenile Justice’s building on Broad River Road. (File/Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)
South Carolina’s Department of Juvenile Justice has added 81 beds in five months for jailed youth who are awaiting trial in the state’s family court system. The agency is working to add 24 more as it continues its struggle with overcrowding, understaffing and the violence that comes with it.
DJJ Director Eden Hendrick says the changes are working…