- State Juvenile
- Georgia
- P.O. Box 4805, Macon, GA 31208-4805
- 478-751-3415
- Official Website
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Macon Youth Development Campus (YDC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 478-751-3415
This facility is for juvenile residents.
Capacity: 150 (All Female) (54 Short-Term, 96 Long-Term)
Program Description:
The Macon YDC opened in 1970 as the only female juvenile YDC in Georgia. The campus currently serves youth in the long-term program who are assessed as having low-to high public risk levels and youth in the short-term program for up to 30 days.
The specialized programs the facility provides are: an orientation and diagnostic process where students admitted to the campus undergo a three-day period of orientation, screening, assessment and evaluation; a behavior management unit that consists of a leveled system that focuses on development of self control, practicing good decision making skills and reintegration into general population; and a mental health unit that provides the highest level of residential healthcare available to the girls in the DJJ system. The clinical program in the mental health unit consists of individual therapy, group therapy, art therapy and weekly psychiatric follow up. The mental health unit is also the home of the Butterfly Group, an intensive three month therapy group for victims of sexual abuse.
The campus also provides education, individual guidance and counseling, medical services, vocational services, and recreation. Vocational programming includes cosmetology, keyboarding and computer skills and consumer home economics.
visitation Info
Visitation for state juvenile facilities is limited to immediate family only. Mother, father, sisters, and brothers are acceptable. The visitation rules are very strict, we suggest reaching out to the staff to get their specific limitations.
