Vermont
Vergennes mayor confirms city picked to host juvenile justice facility
VERGENNES, Vt. (WCAX) – Vergennes Mayor Chris Bearor says state officials have officially chosen the city as its location to place a long-planned juvenile justice facility.
We told you in April that a 14-bed facility was in the works to be built on state-owned land near Comfort Hill in Vergennes.
The mayor says state agencies plan to begin a public education and community engagement process in early June.
“It was a very good meeting, it was very informative and I’m hoping that people engage with this and have an open mind to it and see where it goes,” said Mayor Bearor.
This will not be the city’s first time hosting a youth facility. The Weeks School operated as a youth detention center for over a century before closing in 1979. Since then, the campus has housed the Northland Job Corps, a federally-funded vocational training program.
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