Head of troubled Ohio detention center resigns after 5 hours

CLEVELAND (AP) — A report says the new director of a troubled Ohio juvenile detention center resigned after just five hours on the job.

Cleveland.com reports that Donald Shewalter started his position as director of the Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Juvenile Detention Center in Cleveland on Monday and quit five hours later.

The director’s heart “just wasn’t in it” according to a memo written by Administrative Judge Kristin Sweeney and distributed to staff on Tuesday.

Cleveland.com says Shewalter was hired to replace Delbert Montgomery, who was fired after less than a year in the position.

After a riot at the center last year, a report by the Washington-D.C. based Center for Children’s Law and Policy found routine inmate mistreatment and dysfunction in leadership.

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Information from: cleveland.com, http://www.cleveland.com