Hinds County MS Juvenile Justice Center Inmate Lookup, Hinds County, MS

The Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center is a multi-purpose facility designed to provide a safe and secure short-term care and custody for juveniles who cannot be placed in a less restrictive setting and who have violated the law, violated court orders and stipulations of probation, and/or who are waiting court-ordered placement. The Detention Facility, which has a bed capacity of 84, house residents between 10-17 years of age. The eighty-four beds, 52,058 square feet Juvenile Detention facility, consist of several components: Detention, Administration, Intake, Central Control, and four living areas (Walter Payton Unit, Ossie Davis Unit, Harriet Tubman Unit & John F. Kennedy Unit) which includes twenty-two expansion units, recreation area, kitchen, Jackson Public School, contact visitation area, as well as Hinds County Youth Court. The Center is designed to house short-term sentencing for both male and female juveniles that have been accused of a misdemeanor or felony crime and status offenders awaiting a hearing, placement to another youth facility, or other prescribed recommendation of the Youth Court Judge. The facility provides for the basic needs such as shelter, food, clothing, and medical care; prevents the abridgment of juveniles legal rights during detainment at the facility; provides for physical, emotional, and religious (optional) growth, and educational and social needs of the juveniles during detainment; and houses juveniles in a safe and humane environment, maintaining the level of security necessary to prevent escape and assure that juveniles live free from fear or assault or intimidation by staff or other juveniles.