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Oakley Youth Development Center

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288:. The Mississippi state prison hospital remained at Oakley. On July 21, 1913 a fire swept through the Oakley Prison Farm and killed thirty-five black prisoners. In 1925, after two white prison camps in the Mississippi penal system faced overcrowding, the state of Mississippi moved seventy-five white prisoners between the ages of 14 and 21 to the Oakley facility, turning it into a juvenile correctional facility. William B. Taylor and Tyler H. Fletcher, authors of "Profits from convict labor: Reality or myth observations in Mississippi: 1907–1934," said that Oakley was "a large and unjustifiable financial drain" until its repurposing as a juvenile facility; they said that Oakley was "a financial drain, though perhaps a more justifiable one." 916: 49: 268:. Grantier Architecture designed a 6,598 square feet (613.0 m) building of the school. Only those who have been adjudicated delinquent for a felony or who has been adjudicated delinquent three or more times for a misdemeanor offense may be committed to Oakley. Oakley may retain custody of a child until the child's twentieth birthday but not for longer. The facility is subject to a 2023 Memorandum of Agreement between the United States and Mississippi for care required at the facility. 775: 643:, Fifth Circuit. May 6, 1970. Retrieved on August 9, 2010. "There are two juvenile reform schools in Mississippi: Oakley Training School, which was all-black and Columbia Training School, which was all-white. Both schools accommodated both boys and girls. The two schools are 125 miles apart. Children are assigned to the schools by the state's juvenile judges." 1395:(BOP) receives juveniles from Native American territories where federal law is enforced. They are held in facilities separate from those of adults. Unlike adults sentenced in District of Columbia courts, juveniles sentenced in DC juvenile courts are sent to facilities operated by DC itself, while adults and those sentenced as adults are sent to BOP facilities. 56: 291:
Later Oakley became the Negro Juvenile Reformatory and the Black Juvenile Reformatory School. Before desegregation Oakley housed Black children of both sexes, while the Columbia Training School housed White children of both sexes; the desegregation plan around the 1970s required the state to house
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Originally Oakley was the Oakley Farm, a prison for women in the State of Mississippi prison system. In 1894 the State of Mississippi purchased a 2,725-acre (1,103 ha) property that became the Oakley Farm, and the state housed all women in the Mississippi penal system in Oakley. A limestone
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grant money to build a 15-bed maximum security unit for girls at Oakley. Around 2008 the Mississippi Youth Justice Project advocated for the closure of Oakley. Officials from the school responded, saying that the school had made improvements since past scandals.
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Oakley has a capacity of 150 students. Oakley is located on a 1,068-acre (432 ha) plot of land surrounded by agricultural fields; the State of Mississippi states that the complex is about a 30-minute commute from
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crushing plant opened at Oakley; it became a financial failure. Oakley did not have very good soil, so its farming operations did not do very well. Early in the 20th century the women at Oakley were moved to the
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custody. This does not include federal, state, federal district, and/or territorial facilities for children convicted in adult courts (youth
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male children 15 and older of all races at Oakley, while males 14 and under and females were housed at Columbia.
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In the Name of Emmett till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
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Mississippi Department of Corrections receives $ 2.8 million grant from U.S. Department of Justice
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CRIPA Investigation of Oakley and Columbia Training Schools in Raymond and Columbia, Mississippi
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was incarcerated at Oakley Training School for participating in civil rights protests.
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Profits from convict labor: Reality or myth observations in Mississippi: 1907–1934
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Profits from convict labor: Reality or myth observations in Mississippi: 1907–1934
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Profits from convict labor: Reality or myth observations in Mississippi: 1907–1934
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A post office opened at what is now the Oakley Training School in 1837.
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Correctional facilities for delinquent children in the United States
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Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility (Whittier State School)
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Williams School is the provider of education, for grades 4-12.
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Departments of Education and Public Health Working Together
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Feature Detail Report for: Oakley Post Office (historical)
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Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States
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Buildings and structures in Hinds County, Mississippi
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426 F. 2d 269 - Montgomery v. Oakley Training School
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Unincorporated community
Oakley is located in Mississippi
32°13′09″N 90°30′34″W / 32.21917°N 90.50944°W / 32.21917; -90.50944
Country
State
Mississippi
County
Hinds
Time zone
UTC-6
Central (CST)
DST
UTC-5
ZIP codes
Area code
601
GNIS
mdhs.state.ms.us/dys_instit.html
Mississippi Department of Human Services
unincorporated
Hinds County
Mississippi
Raymond
Jackson
Mississippi State Penitentiary
Sunflower County, Mississippi
U.S. Department of Justice
Brenda Travis
Burglund High School
McComb, Mississippi

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