The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/juvenile-justice/youth-detention/)
North Dakota, Colorado, and Idaho are the newest states accepted into the “Restoring Promise” program piloted by the Vera Institute of Justice. The program is modeled on incarceration strategies used in Europe that provide less rigid environments for young offenders.
The search goes on yet again for a superintendent of the troubled Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center, after one was fired and another lasted just five hours before deciding the job wasn’t to his liking.
Despite falling juvenile crime, more young Alabamans are being trapped in a “school to prison” pipeline, which helps explain the state’s overcrowded and violent adult facilities, say two R Street researchers.
Washington detains more children for status offenses such as truancy and running away than any other state in the country. State lawmakers want to change that.
Kalief Browder was 16 years old when he was arrested in 2010 and accused of stealing a backpack. He was detained for three years without being tried or convicted of a crime and in 2015, at age 22, he hanged himself at his parents’ home. The agreed-upon settlement is for $3.3 million.
In a report examining state compliance with standards set by the Prison Rape Elimination Act for the detention of young people, the Campaign For Youth Justice argues that “loopholes” in implementation of the standards still leave many youths vulnerable to sexual or physical assault.