Sentences with phrase «about juvenile detention»

The over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, concerns about juvenile detention, and the harsh treatment of people with disabilities within prisons are among Australia's «serious unresolved human rights problems», according to the latest annual report from Human Rights Watch.

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Duff knows plenty about shouldering loads: His father, Warren, died when Vontez was two, and after his mother, Wynoka, remarried and later divorced, Vontez took care of his three younger siblings while his mom worked long hours at a juvenile detention center.

About 200 Staten Islanders are voicing their concerns at a meeting now under way on the controversial city juvenile detention facility proposed for Willowbrook.

From Kiawana Rich of the Staten Island Advance About 200 Staten Islanders are voicing their concerns at a meeting now under way on the controversial city juvenile detention facility proposed for Willowbrook.

It costs about $ 200,000 a year to send one teen involved to a juvenile detention center, Hein said.

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.

We talked about overcoming stigma, the Senate Bill No. 261, and the psychological, emotional, and physical affects of solitary confinement (especially at the juvenile detention level).

Alice committed to a juvenile detention center is then forced to take a polygraph test to determine if she's telling the truth about the two attacks, one being fatal, on her sister Karen and Aunt Annie.

This remake of a 1993 tv movie sees a group of youngsters in a juvenile detention camp put together to form an American Football team, and of course along the way learn about the ways of the world and the importance of working together and regularly writing to your mother.

The wunderkind's previous two movies — 2013 Sundance darling Fruitvale Station, about the killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man shot in the back by police while facedown on an Oakland subway platform; and 2015's Rocky reboot, Creed, about a young boxer who grows up in juvenile detention and learns to channel his anger in the ring — were both critical and box - office hits, leaving little doubt Coogler was up to the challenge.

In chronicling his personal redemption, Spurgeon writes about the amazing opportunities provided to him by the Lord despite his dark journey through juvenile detention, jail and prison.

After two years in juvenile detention, Jamie's sister, Cate, has been released, threatening the boy's sanity as he seeks the truth about their shared past.

the adult Indigenous imprisonment rate had increased by 57 % between 2000 and 2013, and the rate of juvenile detention remained about 24 times that of non-Indigenous youth.

Justice reinvestment is about shifting spending away from prisons and juvenile detention expansion towards prevention, such as early childhood education in vulnerable communities, targeting young people at risk of school disengagement, intensive case work support with housing and employment support, and job creation.