Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

CRANSTON, R.I. -- More than 100 troubled boys at the old Training School will be moving to new quarters this weekend.

Kevin Aucoin, the school acting director, said that a security bus will take 104 prisoners on Sunday morning from the old juvenile jail complex to the new Youth Development Center, just down the street on New London Avenue. He said the move should be completed by noon.

``Everything is up and running,'' Aucoin said. ``Things were moved over yesterday and today. I think that we are ready to roll.''

Two months ago, 28 boys were moved from the Training School to the new Roosevelt Benton Youth Assessment Center about a mile from the old complex on the state prison grounds.

Now, the population there is 40 prisoners. Aucoin said that 14 girls are housed in a separate building near the Benton center. That brings the total population of juvenile offenders to 158, just two prisoners below the statutory cap of 160 prisoners.

The General Assembly authorized the $62-million construction of the two new buildings five years ago. Building delays and false starts repeatedly pushed back the opening of each building until this year.

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