(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

The County Commissioners have opened up discussion on bringing back a juvenile detention center to Beaver County.

Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp spoke about sending an e-mail to the prison board in order to form a committee to try and get Beaver County its first operating juvenile detention center in over a decade.

“We spend over half a million dollars a year sending our Beaver County kids outside of the county,” Camp said. “We have space for a jail down here.”

The other two commissioners agreed very much with the idea, agreeing that the benefits would be more than monetary.

“We need to keep our kids in the county,” Commissioner Tony Amadio replied. “It was a big problem back in the day when we looking at doing this…I’m glad we’re doing this now.”

Beaver County’s last juvenile center, Allencrest, had closed in 2009 with the property rights sold in 2019.