Facility profile Georgia

Paulding Regional Youth Detention Center

Also known as Paulding RYDC

Closed Dallas, Georgia

At a glance

Address: Dallas, GA
Type: Juvenile Detention Facility
Operated: Closed 2013
Operator: Youth Services International
Past operators: Correctional Services Corporation

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Paulding Regional Youth Detention Center was a juvenile detention facility in Dallas, Georgia, operated by Youth Services International. It closed in 2013.

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jjie.org General

Funding, Oversight Next Questions for Florida’s Private Youth Prison System

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Ownership

Correctional Services Corporation operated (1999)
Youth Services International operated 2003-2013

Research notes

Correctional Services Corporation listed it as a 126-bed secure detention facility it managed under a State of Georgia contract, starting 1999 (CSC 10-K for 1999).
Youth Services International ran it under a state contract; in a 2012 Bureau of Justice Statistics survey about one in three youth there reported sexual victimization by staff, the highest rate in the nation (JJIE, Oct 2013).
Georgia DJJ let the contract end on December 31, 2013 and closed the facility, which then held about 50 youth (Patch).
Added 2026-09-23 from the research network map (seeds/new-facilities.json).

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Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University

Reporting this program

This program closed in 2013, so the state agency that licensed it can no longer act against it. Other channels may still be able to: the boards that license the people who worked here, law enforcement, and the civil courts.

The Georgia reporting channels list each one and what it can do. Time limits depend on the state, the kind of harm and the survivor's age, and many states have lengthened or removed them for child sexual abuse, so a program closing long ago does not by itself mean it is too late. Laws change, so the time limits we list were correct when we checked them but may have been updated since; a lawyer can tell you where things stand now.