MPR: Red Lake detention center sits unused without BIA help

Friday, April 27, 2012  

"Red Lake tribal officials say they're frustrated over a funding dispute that has left a juvenile detention center empty and unused since it was built by the federal government seven years ago.

The $2 million juvenile center sits behind the tribe's main criminal justice complex in Red Lake. A 13,000-square-foot building paid for by the U.S. Department of Justice, it was designed to provide minimum security detention for up to 24 juveniles. But the center never opened.

"It's frustrating and at times hopeless," Red Lake Tribal Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain said."

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Red Lake tribal officials frustrated by dispute that keeps detention center empty, unused (Minnesota Public Radio 4/26)