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Gainesville to house relocated youth offenders
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Gainesville’s youth detention center will be accommodating more offenders, according to Thursday’s Department of Juvenile Justice announcement to close the Gwinnett Regional Youth Detention Center by June 2014. Juvenile offenders from Hall County and the northern half of Gwinnett County will be assigned to the RYDC in Gainesville. Juvenile offenders from Rockdale County and the southern half of Gwinnett County will be assigned to the newly renovated Rockdale RYDC. “I can’t say they’ll be split up exactly, but that’s where we’re planning to move the group of youth,” DJJ Communications Director Jim Shuler said.