Juvenile Justice Intervention Center

The Juvenile Justice Intervention Center serves as the juvenile detention center for Orleans Parish, providing safe and secure pre-trial detention to youths who are charged with committing a delinquent offense.

Our Mission and Purpose

Our purpose is to provide quality evidence-based juvenile detention practices and programming with a focus on public safety, accountability, and individual treatment needs of the juvenile, and to provide educational, medical, mental health and evidence-based treatment programming that supports every juvenile’s capacity to learn.

These services focus on the best interest of the youth through a professional culture which holds them behaviorally accountable in a manner conducive to personal growth and development.

Our mission focuses on rehabilitation through humane, secure facilities where professional staff nurture emotional maturity and behavioral change. With individualized programming, we give juveniles a chance to progress into community-minded adults even after mistakes. And quality care attuned to specific needs promotes lasting change.

Resources for Employees

Juvenile Justice Intervention Center

(504) 658-3400 (504) 658-3425
1100-A Milton St New Orleans, LA 70122

Regular Business Hours
8:00am–5:30pm

Juvenile Justice Intervention Center
Latest News

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September 20, 2024 | From City of New Orleans

How one New Orleans art program is building up, inspiring city's incarcerated youths

The news of a 17-year-old girl shot dead in broad daylight fueled the inspiration behind a Juvenile Justice Intervention Center mural. 

The girl's brother, a detained youth at the Gentilly-based center, led advocacy efforts for the mural weeks prior as a way to express ruminating thoughts he confronted each night in his cell.

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January 11, 2021 | From City of New Orleans

City Releases Juvenile Justice Programming Handbook on System-Involved Youth

The Office of Youth and Families and the Office of Criminal Justice Coordination released the 2021 City of New Orleans Juvenile Justice Programming Handbook, which contains detailed information on the City’s programs offered to system-involved youth.

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September 17, 2019 | From City of New Orleans

MAYOR CANTRELL CELEBRATES JUVENILE JUSTICE INTERVENTION CENTER JOB FAIR

NEW ORLEANS — Mayor LaToya Cantrell today joined other officials to meet with prospective job applicants and staff at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center's first-ever Job Fair to help fill as many as 70 new positions. Mayor Cantrell also helped celebrate the unveiling of the Center's new signs after its renaming from the Youth Study Center.

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May 29, 2019 | From City of New Orleans

MAYOR CANTRELL ANNOUNCES JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVES


NEW ORLEANS – Mayor LaToya Cantrell today announced plans to curb juvenile crime and offer effective solutions to ensure that young people are safe in our city while promoting public safety.

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