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In [[criminal justice system]]s, a '''youth detention center''', known as a '''juvenile detention center''' ('''JDC'''),<ref name="Juvieabbreviations">Stahl, Dean, Karen Kerchelich, and Ralph De Sola. ''Abbreviations Dictionary''. [[CRC Press]], 2001. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-TnjkhLA_q8C&dq=%22Juvenile+detention+center%22dictionary&pg=PA1202 1202] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614090543/https://books.google.com/books?id=-TnjkhLA_q8C&pg=PA1202&dq=%22Juvenile+detention+center%22dictionary&hl=en&ei=mDNzTPaUB4WClAfz8oW7AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA |date=14 June 2017 }}. Retrieved 23 August 2010. {{ISBN|0-8493-9003-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8493-9003-6}}.</ref> '''juvenile detention''', '''juvenile jail''', '''juvenile hall''', or more colloquially as '''juvie/juvy''', also sometimes referred as '''observation home''' or '''remand home'''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-05-01|title=Short Notes on Remand Homes (Observation Homes)|url=https://www.preservearticles.com/notes/short-notes-on-the-remand-homes-observation-homes/28864|access-date=2021-02-17|website=PreserveArticles.com: Preserving Your Articles for Eternity}}</ref> is a [[prison]] for people under the [[age of majority]], to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term basis while awaiting [[trial]] or placement in a long-term care program. Juveniles go through a separate court system, which sentences or
Some juveniles are released directly back into the community to undergo community-based rehabilitative programs, while others juveniles may pose a greater threat to society and to themselves and therefore are in need of a stay in a supervised juvenile detention center.<ref name="OJJDP 2005 Bulletin">{{cite journal|last=Austin|first=James|author2=Kelly Dedel Johnson|author3=Ronald Weitzer|title=Alternatives to the Secure Detention and Confinement of Juvenile Offenders|journal=OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin|date=September 2005|issue=5|pages=1|url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=208804|access-date=9 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223225619/http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=208804|archive-date=23 February 2010}}</ref> If a juvenile is sent by the courts to a juvenile detention center, there are two types of facilities: secure detention and secure confinement.<ref name="OJJDP 2005 Bulletin" />
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