In 1909 the Protestant Women of Birmingham created a youth corrections program that became the Chalkville campus.
[1] 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.
[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.
[1] The Mount Meigs Campus began housing delinquent girls.