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This 4 page paper describes some of the programs and facilities in place for juvenile drug abusers in Cedar City, Utah. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in Cedar City, Utah. Discussion The state agency with authority over juvenile drug abusers appears to be the Division of Youth Corrections of the Utah Department of Human Services. While
there are a great many detention centers and private rehabilitation facilities throughout Utah, the only one mentioned in the DYC report as being located in Cedar City is the Southwest
Utah Youth Center (DeWitt, Wells and Karren, 2000). The Southwest Utah Youth Center is a "combination 10-bed secure facility and 6-bed detention center" that was opened in 1987 (DeWitt, Wells
and Karren, 2000). A secure facility is also known as a "locked detention" facility; it provides "short-term locked confinement for delinquent youth awaiting adjudication, placement, or serving a sentence
as ordered by a Juvenile Court Judge" (Locked detention, 2008). Young people are placed in locked detention if they are deemed to pose "immediate danger to themselves or others" (Locked
detention, 2008). In addition, juveniles and adolescents can only be sent to locked detention if they meet "Statewide Detention Admission Guidelines; or are ordered into detention by a Juvenile
Court Judge" (Locked detention, 2008). The Guidelines are very specific with regard to the "holdable offenses" that will cause a young person to be remanded to locked detention; among the
offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 2008). Thus, its reasonable to assume that many of the juvenile offenders incarcerated at the Southwest
Utah Youth Center are there for drug abuse, since many times, drug use exacerbates the other crimes that constitute "holdable offenses" under these guidelines. A juvenile court hearing must
be held within 48 hours of admission to the center, and only the juvenile court judge can order that the person continue to be held in locked detention (Locked detention,
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