HI EVERYBODY IF YOU WROTE TO ME IN THE LAST FEW DAYS I AM SORRY I DID NOT GET BACK TO YOU LIGHTING HIT MY COMPUTER JOSH CALLED FRIDAY NIGHT HE SAID HE WAS CLASSIFED TO GO TO FRANK LEE YOUTH CENTER FOR THE S.A.P.S PROGRAHAM EVERY ONE SAID IT WAS A GOOD PLACE ANY ONE HAVE SOME ONE THIR JOSHSDAD:D :cool:

hi everbody i cant belive that someone thir does not have any info. on frank lee youth center that is where josh is going any info. on this ficility would be app. :D :cool: thanks joshsdad

Frank Lee Youth Center became operation on June 1964 with a capacity for 104 first time male offenders 21 or younger with a sentence of less than ten years. The facility was named in honor of A. Frank Lee who was a previous prison commissioner. In 1975, two additional dormitories were built increasing the capacity to 200 inmates. The facility has four dormitories, administrative area, and ancillary service areas. A minimum-security facility, the Center architecturally resembles a school rather than a prison, and uses frequent and irregular head counts for security rather than fences, bars, and towers.

The Center is immediately adjacent to the J. F. Ingram Trade School, who has in attendance about 220 inmates from nearby Staton, Draper and Elmore. Frank Lee provides security staff for these attendees while at Ingram, and also caters their noon meals.

Frank Lee’s inmate population is divided into two sub-categories: permanent party and pre-work release inmates.

Inmates assigned to permanent party are first offenders who are forty years or less; and have never committed a sex offense or a forcible sex offense. Additionally, they must not have committed a violent offense involving serious injury to the victim; and have a sentence of 20 years or less. Permanent party members must be eligible for minimum-out custody. Typically assigned to the Center on a long-term basis, the permanent party attends trade school for vocational training or GED, performs free labor in community work squads with neighboring municipalities, or is utilized within Frank Lee.

In contrast pre-work release inmates are assigned to the facility on a short-term basis, having been classified for work release and are awaiting placement to a center.

Frank Lee Youth Center’s motto is: "Through team work comes Success"

http://www.doc.state.al.us/facilities/franklee.htm

If he's pre-work release or permanent - this is a very good thing. When compared to other facilities - this is an ok place to be. :)

WHAT IS THE Criteria for being located in the Frank Lee Youth Center, in other words, what are the crimes the inmates there have committed? Is First Degree Armed Robbery a typical crime of the inmates there (the person that committed it was 19 at the time?) Any info?

Lily,

The Frank Lee center is currently housing minimum security inmates of all ages and has been for several months. I believe it has probably been "declassified" and is not really a "youth center" anymore. You can however read more about it on the DOC's website, the previous info on the facility is still there:

http://www.doc.state.al.us/facilities/franklee.htm

Right they are running out of room in the Big prisons and the parole board is getting lax in giving paroles again so they have to put the guys somewhere since they wont let them go Home!!!