Sentences with phrase «youth incarceration needs»

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In its resolution, the IDC includes language «that the state should assist in ensuring that 16 and 17 year olds receive the treatment and programming they need in order to avoid the repeated cycle of mass incarceration that many of our youth experience today.

With youth incarceration, there are different views about what has happened and what needs to happen in the future.

While it is clearly critical that abusive individuals and systems in the NT are held to account, there are suggestions it will be a missed opportunity if the Royal Commission does not examine some of the wider issues, including the need to prevent and reduce incarceration of Indigenous youth in the first place.

In recent years, however, there has been an increase in detentions among this population, signaling a shift away from deinstitutionalization and toward incarceration to address non-criminal youth behaviors, many of which are tied to troubled home environments and unmet mental health, learning, or other needs.