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Yale Street Juvenile Detention Centre (1960s) Corrections Branch Archives

Specialized programs

Organizational restructuring resulted in changes | This unit, which was administered elsewhere,

at the program level. Specialized units were functioned along the lines of a closed Borstal
established during the 1950s and 1960s to meet institution. Similar to New Haven, it was used
the special needs of offenders and allow for primarily for inmates serving definite or

more individualized treatment. The Young indeterminate sentences who would be released
Offenders Unit (YOU), which was brought under the provincial parole system. The Star
about by pressures of overcrowding at Oakalla, Class group was transferred to this unit upon its
opened on the grounds of Oakalla on February establishment. T.A. Camm, formerly in charge
26, 1951. Fifty young adult offenders, between of Star Class, was the first director of this

16 and 23 years old, were accommodated.” program.

2 The building that housed this group of offenders was originally designed as a hospital. Construction began in
1949. The attorney general was influenced by J.D. Hobden of the John Howard Society to use this facility as a
segregated unit for young offenders.

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