Guilford County commissioners are set to vote to approve, on Thursday, March 5, a budget amendment that would add $250,000 to the county’s Juvenile Detention budget and authorize payments to the State of North Carolina for housing certain Guilford County juveniles in state-run detention facilities.
Doug Logan, the director of the Guilford County Juvenile Detention Center, is making the request to the board.
The Juvenile Detention Center manages the daily population of juveniles housed at the county facility. Over the past year, the department has experienced increased challenges – both operational and security related – to housing older juveniles, those ages 16 and 17, together with younger residents…