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]
Correctional facilities for delinquent children in the United States
This list template only include federal, state, federal district, and/or territorial facilities for post-trial long-term confinement (often referred to as "treatment"), of six months or more, of delinquent children adjudicated (convicted in a juvenile court) into federal, state, federal district, and/or territorial custody. This does not include federal, state, federal district, and/or territorial facilities for children convicted in adult courts (youth sentenced as adults).
Note: the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) receives juveniles from Native American territories where federal law is enforced. They are held in facilities separate from those of adults. Unlike adults sentenced in District of Columbia courts, juveniles sentenced in DC juvenile courts are sent to facilities operated by DC itself, while adults and those sentenced as adults are sent to BOP facilities.