LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville is still years away from opening a renovated juvenile detention center but the design of the new facility is close to being finished.
In a committee meeting Friday, Randy White, the commissioner for the Dept. of Juvenile Justice, testified that the entire design is expected to be complete in December.
The Louisville Metro Youth Detention Services Center in downtown Louisville closed on in 2019, after it fell into disrepair, but reopened the next day as Louisville Youth Transitional Services.
The state has approved a renovation budget for nearly $39 million but the project will take two years once construction begins.
"We have to conduct studies of the internal components of that facility," White said. "We don't know what we always have, and we have to go in and verify blueprints, reinforce walls if they're detention grade and so forth. So we're in Plan B or Phase B of that project currently."
The renovated facility will include 18 additional cells, for a total of 64 beds, which is triple the old facility's capacity.
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