Sentences with phrase «nt juvenile detention»

Reconciliation Australia welcomes the Prime Minister's announcement this morning of a joint Royal Commission with the Northern Territory Government into the NT juvenile detention system.

Human Rights Commissioner GillianTriggs called for an independent inquiry into NT juvenile detention in the wake of the «disgraceful» revelations.

Not exact matches

In a radical departure from tradition, Francis said Holy Thursday Mass not at the ornately appointed Basilica of St. John Lateran, but in a small chapel with nearly 50 teenage boys and girls at Casal del Marmo Penitential Institute for Minors, a juvenile detention center.

«Not only do we have a growing juvenile detention center in the middle of one of our busiest commercial hubs, but we also have the Vernon C. Bain Center, a relic from the crack epidemic of the 1980's and 1990's,» he said in a statement.

She pointed to the county's IT department and the juvenile detention facility as areas that need to be included in the charter, which weren't noted in the county's previous charter review commission suggestions.

The growing problem can not be attributed to declining educational attainment, or to declining incomes, or to inadequate access to contraceptives, or to higher crime and juvenile detention rates, or to teenage pregnancy, or to slavery's legacy.

Despite the image of superpredators and dangerous hallways, most students suspended from school and most juveniles in detention did not commit violent offenses or put the safety of others at risk.

Of course, you don't have to go to a juvenile detention center to find students with a strong aversion to math.

Ms. Švigelj - Smith, who now teaches in a juvenile detention center, says she's not against accountability, but wants it defined differently.

It's also important to note that the justice system does not spell an end for a student; research cited in the presentation shows when juvenile detention centers are designed to look less like prisons, students have better outcomes in their return to academics.

After spending time in a juvenile detention center, his first instinct was to return to his old school, but «they wouldn't let me come back.»

The voucher is not available to fund homeschooling, virtual schools or students in juvenile detention schools.

«Unaccompanied Youth» includes a youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian, which includes but is not limited to youth who are run - aways, locked - out, neglected, and / or discharged after a stay in juvenile detention but not to the care of an adult.

Actually, I can't wait for Smarter Balanced tests — the number one choice of Superintendents, CEOs, and Juvenile Detention Head Masters.

It's a knee - jerk reaction to a TV program, the Four Corners report documenting appalling abuse in a juvenile detention facility in the NT.

People find it easier to acknowledge and confront historical wrongs which do not implicate them personally, rather than to take responsibility for current discrimination, such as the vastly disproportionate rates of Indigenous juvenile arrest and detention.

[56] These figures do not include persons on remand, or minors in juvenile detention.

The individuals and organisations releasing statements yesterday were in favour of a wide - ranging examination of the NT Juvenile Justice system, with some, including the Change the Record coalition, the National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) pointing out that the problems were not confined to one Australian Territory, and the Commission should lead to a national examination of both the conditions of juvenile detention and the factors playing into the unacceptably high number of Indigenous children and youth inJuvenile Justice system, with some, including the Change the Record coalition, the National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) pointing out that the problems were not confined to one Australian Territory, and the Commission should lead to a national examination of both the conditions of juvenile detention and the factors playing into the unacceptably high number of Indigenous children and youth injuvenile detention and the factors playing into the unacceptably high number of Indigenous children and youth in prison.

The Royal Commission should examine whether these incidences of abuse are more widespread throughout the NT, and the reasons behind the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in juvenile detention facilities across the country.

Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress in Alice Springs, said we should not have needed a Royal Commission into the abuses at the Don Dale juvenile detention centre.

A judge in Michigan sent three children to juvenile detention for refusing to have lunch with their father (if you haven't had a chance to read the story, click here).

Children, including juvenile foreign fishers and, where possible, their families, will not be detained in an immigration detention centre.

However, it is unclear if self - report instruments are still reliable and valid when confidentiality can not be guaranteed, such as during routine assessments in juvenile detention centres.