Alachua County Juvenile Detention Center officers charged with …
23 hours ago · Two Alachua County Juvenile Detention Center employees have been accused of allowing a 15-year-old inmate to be beaten unconscious by other inmates and then failing to provide the victim with ...
We were sexually assaulted in N.J. juvenile detention centers, 11 ...
8 hours ago · The plaintiffs claim Cumberland, Passaic, Mercer and Hudson counties allowed a “rampant” culture of sexual abuse by juvenile detention center staff to fester for years, according to four ...
Former Kentucky juvenile detention chief resigned after …
2 days ago · FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The former superintendent of a Kentucky juvenile detention center that was the site of a riot in 2022 failed to conduct mental health assessments and wrongly accused a teen of getting a handcuff key from a guard before she resigned, according to a newspaper report.. Tonya R. Burton resigned in December as the superintendent of a state juvenile facility in Adair County ...
Juvenile detention centers in NC under scrutiny for use of isolation
Dec 2, 2024 · Teenagers in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system are routinely being locked alone in their rooms for as much as 23 to 24 hours a day, according to an ongoing federal lawsuit and advocates for young people in custody, despite state officials’ own acknowledgment of research showing that prolonged isolation causes mental and physical harm.
While Youth Detention Numbers Rise, States Begin to Roll Back …
Dec 21, 2024 · Meanwhile, in Colorado, prosecutors want to increase the total number of beds in the state’s youth detention centers by 50% to address what they say is rising juvenile-related violent crime. The current number of available beds was set by a 2021 law that lowered the number to force counties to “let youth out that shouldn’t be there,” according to one bill sponsor.
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Staffing shortage forces relocation of juveniles from 2 Kentucky detention centers
Jailed teens say boredom, basic needs got them arrested : NPR
Nov 6, 2023 · Two people killed and 28 others injured at a block party in a shooting where one of the accused was just 14 years old. Violent crime has always made headlines, but it is all the more alarming when...
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange - Juvenile Justice News …
Nov 1, 2024 · Justice organization announces new youth restorative justice partners. Equal Justice USA (EJUSA) announced October 8 that it will partner with four new communities to build new restorative youth justice diversion programs.
Juvenile detention abuse allegations are on the rise around the ... - NPR
May 17, 2024 · Christian and dozens of others claim they were sexually abused as children while incarcerated at Illinois juvenile detention centers, as part of a lawsuit recounting decades of allegations of...
Teens kept in isolation cells at Kentucky juvenile detention center ...
Jan 17, 2024 · Two teenage girls held at a troubled Kentucky juvenile center were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions, including a padded cell with no toilet, a federal class-action lawsuit filed Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, alleges.
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