BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention Center was awarded funding for improvement projects.

Director of Juvenile Services and Detention Center, Dr. Tamiara Wade, says she reached out to the state legislature and asked for $900,000 to address the facility's needs. They were awarded $200,000, which will go toward fixing aging infrastructure in the facility.

"The Juvenile Detention Center was built in 1952. So, it's a 73-plus-year-old building that requires preventive maintenance. So we certainly thought that if it was an opportunity to request additional funding outside of city-parish and what could be provided, then we would reach for that opportunity," Director of Juvenile Services and Detention Center, Dr. Tamiara Wade, said.

Dr. Wade says they previously started work on

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