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Long Creek Youth Development Center

Correctional facility in South Portland, Maine, U.S.

Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC) is Maine's only secure juvenile facility. Established by the Maine Legislature in 1853 as the Maine State Reform School for Boys, it is both a detention center and a correctional facility, run by the Maine Department of Corrections. Located on Westbrook Street in South Portland, adjacent to Portland International Jetport, it is named for the Long Creek tributary of the Fore River on which it stands. The school was built in 1853, to a design by Boston architect Gridley James Fox Bryant, who had a specialization in prison design. The Arthur R. Gould School, which is attended by its inmates, was added in 1921.

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