The Catalina Mountain School is a juvenile correction school located north of Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

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Arizona Department of Corrections

The Arizona Department of Corrections is in charge of the incarceration of inmates in 10 prisons in the U.S. state of Arizona. As of April 2009, the ADC manages over 40,191 imprisoned inmates and over 7,216 inmates who have been paroled or that are statutorily released. ADC is also in involved in...

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It will be closed on October 1, 2011 and the all-male student body transferred to facilities in Phoenix. This will allow the state to save $1.5 million in the 2012 fiscal year.

The school is an associate member of the Arizona Interscholastic Association

Arizona Interscholastic Association

The Arizona Interscholastic Association is the major high school sports association in the state of Arizona. It comprises most of the state's public district high schools, various charter and private schools, plus one high school in California San Pasqual High School in Winterhaven, California,...

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