Sentences with phrase «time juvenile offenders»

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At the same time as he was diverting offenders from upstate juvenile detention facilities, Cuomo also closed down all of the New York City — based OCFS facilities, undermining any claim that the program was really about moving juveniles closer to their homes.

If there were any recommendations out of this study, Beckley said, hers would be to focus more on juvenile offenders while perhaps being a bit more lenient on first - time adult offenders.

Eventually, after leaving home several more times, he ended up a «hustler,» or young male prostitute, in California — a repeat juvenile offender, dependent on drugs and dealing in drugs.

Although the percentage of juvenile offenders under the age of 18 confined in a correctional facility declined from 1 percent to half that level between 1997 and 2011, they were still five times as likely to be in detention or correctional facilities in 2011 than their white peers.

According to a report released by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, the American prison system held over one million nonviolent offenders by the end of 1998 — the first time ever in American history.