Rocky Boy plans youth detention facilities

Angela Brandt

Havre Daily News

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Chippewa Cree tribal council members are working to detain juvenile offenders on the reservation instead of paying for them to be housed elsewhere.

Council members Friday voted unanimously to seek a waiver of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act mandate that juveniles must be detained in a separate building from adults.

Currently, juveniles are sent to the Blaine County Detention Center, which costs $195 per day, tribal council member Jonathan Windy Boy said during the meeting.

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