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A young person may be incarcerated for a short period of time or may be transferred frequently. For example, in the Fairfax County, Virginia Detention Center, youths typically stay 2 to 3 weeks (Markowitz, 1998). This is consistent with the national average length of confinement of 15 days in juvenile detention centers (Abt, 1994). ................
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