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Chalkville Campus

Chalkville Campus

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Chalkville Campus was a correctional facility for girls of the Alabama Department of Youth Services, in the Chalkville area, in Jefferson County, Alabama.

In 1909 the Protestant Women of Birmingham created a youth corrections program that became the Chalkville campus.[1]

By 2002 100 former students who attended in the period 1993 to 2001 accused the school of abuse, with forty of them joining a lawsuit in federal court.[2] The State of Alabama settled the lawsuit for $12,500,000.[3] Some persons lost their jobs.[4]

By 2012 enrollment was down to 18, and the department planned to retire the Chalkville campus and move the girls elsewhere. In January 2012 a tornado destroyed 11 of the buildings, though no injuries resulted. The facility abruptly closed as a result.[1] The Mount Meigs Campus began housing delinquent girls.[5]


References

  1. Kazek, Kelly (2016-08-04). "See the eerie abandoned campus of Alabama's reform school for girls". Al.com. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  2. Singer, Amy (June 2002). "Girls Sentenced to Abuse". Marie Claire (United States). Retrieved 2022-08-25. - Hosted by the website of the photographer for the article. Linked from the academic database of American University (which points to an older URL)
  3. Reeves, Jay (2001-06-17). "Sex scandal at state girls prison results in firings, lawsuit". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 2022-08-25.

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