[1][2][3] The commission, under the office of the Attorney General of New Jersey, provides youth correctional services.
The New Jersey Training School, the JJC's largest facility, houses around 300 boys.
All adjudicated girls go to the Johnstone Campus Juvenile Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, which has a capacity for 52 inmates.
[7] Boys go to Juvenile Medium Security Facility-North Compound (JMSF-N) and the Juvenile Medium Security Facility-South Compound (JMSF-S); these two parts altogether may house up to 262 inmates.
[9] The commission did a study which concluded that of the males who went to the boot camp between February 1997 and August 1999, within a two-year period of completing the program 80% had later been arrested.