This news is the best news I have heard all year long! Now the "big" union can crumble just as the other "big" union did in janesville. I think it is beautiful that some of the insecure employees(who thought that they were secure) will fall flat on their faces!!!

"Waaaah, Waaah, Waaaaaah"

Has anyone considered how the victims of juvenile crimes would be affected by this? Or has everyone already forgotten about the Rotary Gardens being vandalized?; what about the the juvenile who was lit on fire a few years ago, what about the school being vandalized 2 summers ago? How would the victims of these crimes and other juvenile crimes feel about seeing the perpetrator walking around free the next day? If anyone believes the juvenile offenders would be sent to corrections you are mistaken. If they don't have money to keep the juvenile detention center open then why would they pay to send them to corrections? It is my understanding that the juveniles can't be housed at the jail because the jail is too full already. It would be a huge mistake to close the juvenile detention center.

Cut costs at the facility instead of closing the facility. Why should inmates, adult or juvenile, have cable television, just for an example?? I can't even afford stuff like cable tv right now and I work full time and have never so much as stolen a paper clip! It's ridiculous.

the dangerous kids should be housed at the county jail,they do serious crimes they need to be put in jail.and before you ask,yes i do know from experience.and were we good parents? yes we were.we tried everything in the book,listened to all the councelors,doctors,probation officers,none of them knew what the hell they were talking about either.we tried meds, therapy,
tons of money spent.he hit the county jail at 15 and he survived in there just fine. most of those kids at the detention center have been there numerous times.they send them there over and over and over,its a waste of money.send them to corrections and theyll straighten up.internet and cable tv dont make kids bad,always trying to lay the blame somewhere else except where it needs to be layed,my son never watched that much tv and we had no computers at the time,he just refused to conform to society and obey the rules,and the only place that got him was locked up. dont get me wrong i love him more than anything in the world,and he chose not to act civil.kids make their own choices so if their bad they choose to be,so dont be blaming everything and everyone for their own decisions.put them in jail,maybe theyll make better choices after that.

Here's an idea.....make all people take personality tests and undergo psychological exams and get license's to even breed. Then, we won't have the problems we have today. Parents that leave their children unattended with the internet and cable tv and to run the streets to do whatever they want are the downfall of American Children.

Better to have worked there then stayed there.

Did anyone every think about NOT listening to what should be considered an illegal or immoral order? Simply continue doing your jobs and deny the bureaucrat's orders. Maybe these individuals should be removed from office. Just listen to these posts, no one agrees with this story/ decision.

"...to make the case for closing..." THIS is how bureaucrats run everything. Until society figures out how to stop our increasing deliquent uprising, we should continue to place them into detention. So what do these bureaucrats want us to do then? Maybe Wisconsin should step in and redirect this story?

Yet another decision that will have significant consequences, sort of like closing the mental health and detox facilities. I'm all for responsible spending by government but I guarantee you that if you took just some of the money that county government has squandered on less important projects that the JDC could be adequately funded. Public safety should be at the top of the list when it comes to making out a budget, not the other way around. All this will do is undermine law enforcement's efforts to curb juvenile crime. You think that the repeat offenders won't get the message soon that they can get away with almost anything and be released the same day? At least with the JDC operating as it was these kids were taken off the streets for awhile. What happens when the cops get a 13 year old who commits a serious crime, say a battery, and there are no parents available to release them to? I'll tell you, taxpayer funded babysitting, that's what. This is the county simply shifting the responsibility and cost to the local municipalities.

"For years Janesville did not have a juvenile detention center, and thing were fine."

Not true, before the detention center was built, the juveniles were housed at the Rock County jail.

I'm sure there's more to this story that the Gazette has chosen not to print in order to stir controversy, and sell printed editions.

I was given a tour of the facility a few years back by a former employee. Most of the kids that was in there had it much better off then they ever did at home. they have 3 meals a day, a full size exercise gym, TV and list goes one. Most of the time they are in a day room where they all can hang out and spend time with each other in a safe setting. They go to classes every day to learn ABC and some began a new direction in life other then crime. I really think this is a mistake to drop this worth while program for kids who are lost in life. Some of the kids after graduation join the military service and become a productive citizen.

More "dangerous kids" on the run?? Guess I'll have to hunker down and barricade myself! Geez! What are they thinking and who thought up this assinine brainstorm?

Who ordered it?

They would be crazy to close the juvenile detention center. I used to work there and at the time, they used to contract with other counties to house their inmates in our facility.

If it's a money,why don't they try and do that again.

I take it you know this from experience.

Mack10:
The problem with the Youth Home was it was not secured. You would have juveniles who were brought in and shortly later, they run away hence them needing to build a secure side...

Numbers are altered when probation officers are told not to take juveniles in custody... If POs were allowed to but them in and cases were not being thrown out, JDC would have a full house.

"The Rock County Juvenile Detention Center has been ORDERED to deny the lockup of dangerous kids to reduce its daily population"---"Juvenile probation supervisors also have been ORDERED to dismiss or “no action” referrals from law enforcement" Again, I want to know WHO ordered this.

I am confused. How is it that you can "make the case" for anything? Doesn't this mean you are altering the data and therefore changing the outcome. I could understand closing this facility if the current population didn't warrant it being open. But it seems to me, if we have a consistant population inside the facility that we need the facility. As for saving money, really it is sad that we need such a facility, but is this really a practical place to cut funds?

$400,000 is not a lot of money when the Governor took 25 million from the cell phone overpayment and 50 million in stimulus and gave back to the counties, after cutting 83 million from the budget to the counties, after raiding the highway trust fund of $427 million and putting the money into the Administration budget, after raising our license plate and drivers license fees.

What you mean by ordering measures?

WHO has ordered these measures?