621:1 New Hampshire Youth Development Center; Administration. – I. The New Hampshire youth development center, a juvenile correctional facility formerly known as the industrial school, may also be referred to as the YDC or the center. References to the industrial school or the YDC in statutes or other documents shall mean the youth development […]
621:10 Repealed by 2022, 323:1, VI, eff. Sept. 6, 2022. –
621:11 Repealed by 1983, 416:37, V, eff. July 1, 1983. –
621:12 Department’s Duties. – I. The department shall have charge of the lands, buildings, furniture, tools, implements, stock, provisions, and other property of the center. The department shall keep, in suitable books, regular and complete accounts of all receipts and expenditures, and of the debts, credits, contracts and property of the center, showing its […]
621:13 Repealed by 1983, 416:37, VI, eff. July 1, 1983. –
621:14 Repealed by 1983, 416:37, VII, eff. July 1, 1983. –
621:15 Records of Children Committed or Detained. – The commissioner shall cause accurate records to be kept which shall contain, as a minimum, the child’s name, address, age, parents’ or guardians’ names and addresses, commitment documents, and such other data as may be appropriate. The commissioner shall issue directives to ensure compliance with state […]
621:16 Erroneous Committal Elsewhere. – If a child shall be committed by error of any court to a correctional institution other than the center, the commissioner, the county attorney, the minor, or any person interested in the minor may apply to a justice of the superior court for an order for the commitment of […]
621:17 Committal by the United States. – The department may receive and maintain juvenile offenders sent to the center by virtue of any act of the Congress of the United States for such reasonable compensation as may be agreed upon with the United States authorities. The commissioner shall receive, detain, and treat these offenders […]
621:18 Detention. – Children detained at the center under RSA 169-B shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter relative to release, administrative release to parole, parole, and discharge, but shall be subject to the transfer provided for incorrigibles until the court disposes of their cases. Source. 1913, 101:20. PL 399:21. RL […]
621:19 Releases and Discharges. – I. The board may release any child committed to its care on administrative release to parole or parole, not to exceed the minority of the child, but no release shall be effective until provisions have been made for the proper care of the released child. I-a. The board shall […]
621:2 Philosophy of the New Hampshire Youth Development Center. – The New Hampshire youth development center shall be administered to effect the following purposes and policies: I. To provide a wholesome physical and emotional setting for each child detained at or committed to the center; II. To provide protection, care, counseling, supervision, and rehabilitative […]
621:20 Contract for Board. – The department may contract to pay the board of a released child when the child, because of age or other conditions, is unable to earn board and no proper place may be found for him or her without payment of board. Source. 1913, 101:22. PL 399:24. RL 463:24. 1953, […]
621:21 Payment of Board. – Payments of board shall be charged to the expenses of the center as if they were payments for boarding, instructing, and disciplining the child at the center, with a right of recovery against the legally liable unit in accordance with RSA 169-B:40 and RSA 621:31. Source. 1913, 101:22. PL […]
621:22 Children in Residential Care. – Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, whenever the department releases a child and contracts for the child’s residential care in a facility which has been approved by the department of health and human services, payment for the care shall be charged in accordance with RSA 169-B:40 and […]
621:23 Religious Preference. – In all questions of release, the department shall investigate the religious and moral character of those into whose custody a released child is placed. Source. 1913, 101:24. PL 399:27. RL 463:27. 1953, 205:1, par. 19. RSA 621:20. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:20. 1995, 181:20, eff. July 1, 1995.
621:24 Effect of Release. – No administrative release or parole of a child shall operate as a discharge of the child from the center. The department shall continue to have control of children on administrative release to parole or parole until they reach the age of 18 years, and the control conferred by the […]
621:25 Remands and Changes in Conditions of Release. – The board or the commissioner, subject to the approval of the board, may modify or cancel any arrangements or conditions relative to release, other than discharge of a child, or may order a child remanded to the center, until the child reaches the age of […]
621:26 Discharge by Superior Court. – A minor erroneously committed to the center may be discharged by a justice of the superior court, upon petition of the county attorney or a selectman of the town or mayor of the city in which the minor resides, when continued commitment is unnecessary. Upon petition to the […]
621:27 Incorrigibles. – I. If a minor committed or detained at the center shall be found by the department to be incorrigible and dangerous to the discipline of the center, the department may order the minor to be transferred and committed to another institution with facilities for minors for a time not exceeding the […]
