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The New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission is a state agency of New Jersey, headquartered in Ewing Township, near Trenton. [1] [2] [3] The commission, under the office of the Attorney General of New Jersey, provides youth correctional services.
The New Jersey Training School, the JJC's largest facility, houses around 300 boys. [4] It is in Monroe Township, Middlesex County. [5]
The state's other secure facilities are located in the Johnstone Campus in Bordentown. All adjudicated girls go to the Johnstone Campus Juvenile Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, which has a capacity for 52 inmates. [6] There are detention cells which may hold up to 8 girls. Normally the entire girls' area may house up to 48 girls. [7] Boys go to Juvenile Medium Security Facility-North Compound (JMSF-N) and the Juvenile Medium Security Facility-South Compound (JMSF-S); these two parts altogether may house up to 262 inmates. [6] As of 2015 about 118 boys live in the medium compound. [8]
In 1996 the state opened a boot camp for juvenile offenders. [9] The commission did a study which concluded that of the males who went to the boot camp between February 1997 and August 1999, within a two-year period of completing the program 80% had later been arrested. [10]