The Rhode Island Training School (RITS) is a secure residential facility for juvenile delinquents.
[3] The facility is also known as the Rhode Island Youth Development Center.
By the 2000s, there were so few girls adjudicated in Rhode Island that they lived together in one unit and shared day schedules with boys.
[7] In 2009 Governor of Rhode Island Donald Carcieri proposed that Rhode Island Housing, a state agency that is set up like a corporation, buy the former RITS site in Cranston.
[8] In June 2013, a child's arm was broken at DCYF facility Harmony Hill School[9] and a toddler in foster care was found dead.