After more than 10 years in dormancy, one of Bowie County’s old juvenile detention centers received new life Friday.

The Stuart Nunn Center is now the county’s first Juvenile Probation Program and Processing Center.

“This will be the first step in an overall comprehensive plan to address the need to help put juvenile offenders back on the right track in their lives,” said 5th District Judge Ralph Burgess, who has served as Bowie County’s Juvenile Probation Committee chairman for the last six years. “I’ve learned a lot about juvenile probation in the last six years. Soci...

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