Chalkville Campus Explained

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]

External links

• Web site: Chalkville Campus. https://web.archive.org/web/20100204055140/http://dys.alabama.gov/chalkville.html . 2010-02-04 .

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Kazek. Kelly. See the eerie abandoned campus of Alabama's reform school for girls. Al.com. 2016-08-04. 2022-08-25.
2. Web site: Singer. Amy. Girls Sentenced to Abuse. Marie Claire (United States). June 2002. 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. Web site: CHALKVILLE: $12.5 million paid to end sex scandal at DYS. Al.com. 2007-05-05. 2022-08-25. - With The Birmingham News
4. Web site: Reeves . Jay . Sex scandal at state girls prison results in firings, lawsuit . . 2001-06-17 . . 2022-08-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161013173559/http://lubbockonline.com/stories/061701/upd_sexscandal.shtml . 13 October 2016 . dead.
5. Web site: New DYS girls facility reflects Alabama's reformed approach to juvenile crime. Al.com. 2015-10-09. 2022-08-25.