Westmoreland officials said Monday hiring efforts could result in a full-scale reopening of the county’s juvenile detention center next month. The 16-bed secure detention center at the Regional ...

Westmoreland County’s juvenile detention center is expected to reopen this month after being largely closed since June because of staffing shortages and operational problems, officials said ...

Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center reopens 01:51. HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- The statewide crisis involving the juvenile justice system takes a step in the right direction today ...

Teens who escaped Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center taken into custody. Police say Braedon Dickinson, 16, and Robert Cogdell, 14, were taken into custody in Fayette County ...

Jun. 24—Westmoreland County's juvenile detention center is temporarily closed amid ongoing state child welfare investigations and staffing issues that resulted in an inability to properly staff ...

County leaders for months have planned for the reopening of Westmoreland's juvenile detention center. Five new staff members have been hired since Thanksgiving and the roster of employees is now ...

Westmoreland County is facing the same issue in trying to reopen its juvenile detention center, which closed last June. Westmoreland County Commissioner Ted Kopas says outdated state regulations ...

Westmoreland County Controller Jeff Balzer, who is the Chairman of the Board for the Juvenile Detention Center said that’s because that’s where the court ordered them to be.

Westmoreland County company confirms bid for Shuman Juvenile Detention Center. Amid a rise of gun violence among teenagers, there is a new push to re-open the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center.

Jun. 24—The Westmoreland County juvenile detention center in Hempfield has hired enough staff to double its capacity three months after a limited reopening in March, officials announced Monday. The ...

Nov. 6—Westmoreland County commissioners have agreed to settle a lawsuit that claimed excessive force was used against a teen at the county's juvenile detention center in Hempfield. In the ...

— For the past 10 months, the rooms at the Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center have sat empty. It’s been closed since June. That changes on Wednesday when the facility reopens, ...