Topic: youth detention center
EDITORIAL – Youth center on hold: Saving face after the ‘about-face’
We prefer our lawmakers to be serious and stalwart individuals — determination in their demeanors, steel in their eyes and spines. Squishiness is better left to invertebrates (polyps, anemones or jellyfish), which drift this way and that with the currents, tides and trends.
New plan under way for youth detention center
A new secure facility for young offenders is planned on the site of the Bonaventure Boys Home in West Bay at an estimated cost of around $2.5 million. The proposal aims to bring Cayman’s prison system into compliance with human rights legislation, which requires youth to be housed separately from adults.
