Facility’s night shift affected

already in place,” Shuler said.

Some staff were moved from other assignments to replace the suspended night-shift workers.

Members of the unit that responds to disturbances also have been assigned to the night shift at DeKalb RYDC. And the agency expects to hire more officers to fill in the gaps, Shuler said.

“Supervisory personnel and executive staff will make regular roundthe-clock checks on the facility to ensure the entire schedule is running smoothly again,” Shuler said in an email.

He said, however, that other shifts did not lose personnel as officers are moved to fill the jobs left vacant on the night shift.

D JJ has been the subject of a series of negative reports since the release last month of the Department of Justice’s findings in an anonymous survey of locked up youth that is required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.

The Paulding RYDC led the nation with 32.1 percent of the teenagers surveyed anonymously last year reporting they were victimized sexually by either staff or other juveniles. That was more than three times the national rate of 9.5 percent.

Also included in the list of the 13 U.S. facilities with the highest rates of sexual victimization were the Eastman Youth Development Campus in Dodge County, the Augusta YDC in Richmond County and the Sumter YDC in Americus, all hold juveniles after their cases have been adjudicated.