Facility profile Kansas

Youth Center at Beloit

Formerly Kansas Industrial School for Girls, State Industrial School for Girls

Also known as Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility

Closed Beloit, Kansas

At a glance

Address: Beloit, KS
Type: Juvenile Correctional Facility
Operated: 1888 to 2009
Serves: Female
Operator: Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority
Past operators: Women's Christian Temperance Union; State of Kansas

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Youth Center at Beloit was a juvenile correctional facility in Beloit, Kansas, operated by Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority. It operated from 1888 to 2009.

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Research notes

Opened February 1, 1888 as the Kansas Industrial School for Girls; renamed Youth Center at Beloit on July 1, 1974 and Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility on July 1, 1997 (Wikipedia).
Closed August 28, 2009; remaining girls were moved to the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex in Topeka (Wikipedia).
Run by the Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority from 1997 to 2009 (Wikipedia).
The Women's Christian Temperance Union established it in Beloit on February 1, 1888; the State of Kansas took over in 1889 (Wikipedia).
Also known as the State Industrial School for Girls, the Kansas Girls' Industrial School and the Youth Center at Beloit; renamed Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility on July 1, 1997 (Wikipedia).
The state closed it in 2009, after 121 years (Wikipedia).
Added 2026-09-23 from the research network map (seeds/new-facilities.json).

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This program closed in 2009, 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.

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