South Carolina legislators finalized plans for a psychiatric treatment center for patients in the juvenile justice system in Columbia, CBS affiliate WCSC reported Aug. 23.
The 50,000-square-foot facility aims to provide mental health services to children in the justice system unable to access mental healthcare, according to the news station.
"This is designed to meet their needs, their unique needs, so there will not be this whole long process of having to apply and be rejected and apply and be rejected," Eden Hendrick, executive director of the North Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice, told WCSC.
The hospital will be run by the state's Department of Mental Health, Division of Juvenile Justice and Department of Children's Advocacy.