Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center

Promoting public safety, helping juvenile offenders and saving taxpayer dollars

Communities across the United States face major challenges when dealing with recently arrested youth:
how to improve public safety, contain costs and deliver quality care and services.

G4S understands these challenges and believes the key to meeting them is developing comprehensive and effective services aimed at addressing the public safety risks and the individual needs of the youth.These services should be delivered by highly trained staff and be cost effective.

One community that needed to meet these challenges is the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County — a combined city-county government serving a population of more than 635,000 citizens. Davidson County needed a place to provide temporary, safe and secure holding for juveniles pending adjudication. In 2004, the Metro Nashville government chose G4S Youth Services to manage the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center.

The center serves male and female pre-trial juveniles and has a capacity to house 86 youth.The center processes 600 youth and detains 300 juveniles each month, on average. The Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center is the first of only two juvenile detention centers in Tennessee to be accredited by the American Correctional Association. It has maintained ACA accreditation for more than 14 years. Accreditation means the facility complies with 417 standards ranging from daily operating guidelines, policies and procedures, staff/offender morale measures and strength and weakness assessments.

In late 2011, the ACA renewed the facility’s accreditation after it scored 100 percent on all mandatory standards and 98 percent on all non-mandatory standards.

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