{"id":123552,"date":"2026-02-25T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123552\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:59:10","slug":"berks-countys-proposed-youth-center-sees-new-support-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123552\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County&#8217;s proposed youth center sees new support | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; Another county is joining the regional efforts to open a youth detention center in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The Lackawanna County Commissioners approved a measure to send young offenders to a center that&#8217;s planned to open in Bern Township.<\/p>\n<p>Officials there say at times, offenders have been sent as far away as Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County&#8217;s Deputy Chief Operations Officer says the need for detention beds is a pressing issue throughout Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Berks is also working with Lehigh and Dauphin counties to open the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; Another county is joining the regional efforts to open a youth detention center in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,2567,2908,57874,57871,201,433,28,128,130,129,58029,44153],"class_list":["post-123552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-bern-township","tag-dauphin-county","tag-detention-beds","tag-juvenile-offenders","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-regional-cooperation","tag-youth-detention-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}