Juvies

Released: 2007-02-01

Runtime: 60 minutes

Episode Overview

For some teens, one poor choice can result in a trip to Indiana's Lake Country Juvenile Center. When sixteen-year-old Sara runs away from home and heads towards Texas with some of her friends, she is caught by the police and locked up for four.

Series Overview

Juvies is an MTV television show following minors in the Lake County, Indiana Juvenile Justice Complex. The series' first and only season debuted on MTV in February 2007, and has re-aired regularly since. On July 30, 2008 the NWI Times reported that production was underway for another documentary series also to be filmed at the Lake County Juvenile Justice Complex in Crown Point, Indiana. The MSNBC version, re-branded as "Lockup - Lake County Juvenile Justice," takes a deeper look at the inner workings of the LCJC detention and court systems, and it ventures into other correctional facilities in Indiana, and premiered on MSNBC on July 4, 2009 at 10:00 E.T.