The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is a state agency of

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. The agency operates juvenile correctional facilities. The department was under federal oversight for 11 years after the U.S. Justice Department investigated reports of overcrowding and abuse. In 2009 the

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ended oversight of the DJJ.

Facilities

The DJJ operates six youth development campuses (YDCs), which house children sentenced to or committed to the DJJ by juvenile courts. The DJJ also operates 22 regional youth detention centers (RYDCs), which house children awaiting trial in a juvenile or superior court or awaiting placement into another facility. Both types of facilities are grouped into four regions: northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest.

Youth development campuses

The youth development campuses include: * Augusta Youth Development Campus ( Augusta) * Eastman Youth Development Campus ( Dodge County, partially in Eastman, partially in an ''unincorporated area'') * Macon Youth Development Campus (''Unincorporated'' Bibb County) * Muscogee Youth Development Campus (

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) * Sumter Youth Development Campus (''Unincorporated'' Sumter County) Macon, which opened in 1970, is all girls and the only YDC facility for girls in the DJJ.

Regional youth detention centers

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, and Wilkes counties * Blakely Regional Youth Detention Center * Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center * Martha K. Glaze Regional Youth Detention Center (formerly Clayton Regional Youth Detention Center) ( Lovejoy) - Clayton and Fayette counties * Crisp Regional Youth Detention Center * Aaron Cohn Regional Youth Detention Center * DeKalb Regional Youth Detention Center (''Unincorporated''

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* Paulding Regional Youth Detention Center * Bob Richards Regional Youth Detention Center * Sandersville Regional Youth Detention Center * Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center ( Savannah) -

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) * Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center (formerly Dalton Regional Youth Detention Center) (

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, Pickens, and Whitfield counties * Waycross Regional Youth Detention Center * Rockdale County Youth Detention Center

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