The Oak Hill Youth Center, open since 1967 and plagued with the predictible issues of violence and failings one might suspect from a D.C. youth detention center, officially closes today. The last kids arrived yesterday at the New Beginnings Youth Center, not far from Oak Hill in Laurel, Md., where Mayor Adrian Fenty will be on hand today for its opening ceremony. The new campus is spacious and technologically advanced, with electronic key cards, floor-to-ceiling chalkboards for the kids — and no razor wire — making it “the anti-prison,” the Post quotes Vincent N. Schiraldi, director of the D.C. Dept. of Youth Rehabilitation Services. “What we had before was a training school for them to become adult inmates. We want them to aspire to college, to be in a place that looks like you care about them.”