Rays stadium project ‘displaced’ Hillsborough juvenile detention center, email shows

An August email sent by a juvenile justice official sheds new light on the state’s secretive and sudden shutdown of Hillsborough County’s only juvenile detention center, noting that the center and a youth program are being “displaced by the Devil Rays project.

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