Four inmates transported to local hospital after riot at Juvenile Detention Center
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla – Four inmates were transported to a local hospital after a riot at the Alachua Regional Juvenile Detention Center on Saturday afternoon.
At about 4:15 p.m. on March 28, officials at the Juvenile Detention Center (3440 NE 39th Avenue) requested aid after a juvenile inmate threatened to commit suicide. According to information provided by the Gainesville Police Department (GPD), when staff opened the door to the pod, several juveniles ran out and entered other pods, which snowballed into a riot and led to several thousand dollars’ worth of property damage; several windows were broken, fire extinguishers were emptied, water fountains were ripped off of the walls, and furniture was destroyed.
Scanner calls indicated that one juvenile suffered a seizure, and one juvenile had been cut. A total of four juveniles were transported to Shands; none of the injuries are life-threatening.
This incident is still under investigation.
This just makes me think even more there is not enough staff and it is a continuous people. Shut it down or pay for goood staff.
You can not shut down a detention center for juveniles. They are not allowed to be housed with adults. Even when a juvenile is adjudication as an adult it is still a nightmare for staffing to keep that juvenile away from adult inmates.
Maybe a better solution is better prosecution, sentencing, and transfer to prisons instead of coddling them.
Actually yes the state can and did several years ago. This is a regional which means other counties come here as well. They can be sent elsewhere in the state as they were before. My information comes from a state rep. And another suggestion by the same state rep. Was exactly to shut it down again.
They’ve been understaffed for a very long time
This is Gainesville and Alachua County. The Democrat politicians who run us like dictators and Kings don’t care about prosecuting or law enforcement; they just virtue signal. Teachers aren’t very high on the list either.
Dude, it’s a state facility so you should be aiming your slings at the Governor and GOP led state legislature
They destroyed the equipment and parts of the building — it would be fitting and just to wait until late summer to repair and replace those things.
They should all be tried and adjudicated as adults. Their names and mugshots should be published.
AGREED!!!!!!!
Thank you ‘Social Engineers’ for the legitimization of bastardy! The ‘Great Society’ lives!
the juvies are worse than the adults bc they can get away with just about anything wo fear of real punishment, this why myself and many of my colleges have zero interest in working there, rn
The adolescent brain — particularly the prefrontal cortex, which governs impulse control, risk assessment, and long-term thinking — isn’t fully developed until around age 25. This has significant legal implications:
What neuroscience tells us
∙ Teens are more driven by reward-seeking and peer influence due to an overactive limbic system relative to their still-developing prefrontal cortex
∙ They’re more impulsive, less able to foresee consequences, and more susceptible to peer pressure
∙ These aren’t character flaws — they’re structural features of the developing brain.
Punishment and more punishment is what we’ve done forever…maybe a more thoughtful approach?
The usual internet tough guys offer their “solutions”.
Keep in mind that the US has the highest incarceration rate of any developed countries, including China.
And as long as folks like you keep telling the criminals they are the victims and that the answer is cashless bail; defunding the police; abolish prisons, etc. then we will keep having these issues. Your comments are 100% non-serious. We are where we are exclusively because of liberal ideas and policies. Period!!
Your solution, Jazzman? Are you suggesting we are over-incarcerating? That our criminals are not so bad as to deserve to be in prisons? That we, as a country, are treating criminals too harshly? Genuinely curious as to your solution.
If you have not had a child in a facility you should not be throwing your opinions out there about any of this. For starters, parents need to parent or let someone who can parent parent and children wouldn’t get themselves into these centers. But for two, some youth are wrongfully placed into these places they are held in due to crooked cops, and biased judges trying to cover up their mistakes and/or not look prejudice. For three, kids who are in these centers and the youth academies go through the same things that adults do who are in jail or prison. They have to fight for their lives, kiss staff butts to not get beatings or treated poorly all around, and their belongings and personal affects go missing or get destroyed by not just other children but by the staff mainly. And God forbid you be a newbie or not a gang member! Its a sad situation, and whatever was going on we can’t sit here and debate on because WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THERE!!!! They have been shutting these types of places down over staff wrong doings for years! Including sexual assault, neglect, and even deaths of our youth! Do your research before hopping on here like you could ever relate blows my mind!