Sentences with phrase «in a juvenile detention center»

Supporters want the teens to be processed in family court, and if found guilty, placed in a juvenile detention center.

She's taught in juvenile detention centers and prisons and believes in the power of mindfulness as a tool for restorative justice.

While serving time in a juvenile detention center, Scarface learned how to box, becoming a fan of the beauty of the art and its healing powers over what life hit him with.

Johnson's best «serious» drama is this familiar but very effective sports movie, in which he reforms teenagers in a juvenile detention center by starting a football team.

Winstone played Carlin, a young hoodlum locked away in a juvenile detention center, and was excellent in what would prove to be a very demanding role.

Jacob — a repeat vandal and frequent playground scuffler — is one strike away from landing himself in a juvenile detention center.

My experience teaching on the Tohono O'odham Native American Reservation, in low - income high schools and in a juvenile detention center often pulled me to areas of most need.

Carlton Ashby: They Are All Our Children Any impact I have had on the lives of kids I visit in juvenile detention centers is overshadowed by the impact they have had on mine.

The goal of our project was to explore connected learning by connecting in - school and out of school learning in a juvenile detention center through music and video projects designed to be self - reflective stories of how the students define freedom.

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

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.»

This CFC - J curriculum finds success in unique settings, with regular implementation in juvenile detention centers and orphanages.

Fourteen - year - old Destiny Bruno was punched in the head repeatedly, placed in a headlock, handcuffed, arrested and forced to spend the night in a juvenile detention center.

While languishing in a juvenile detention center following an assault conviction, 17 - year - old Minnow Bly relives the events that led to her imprisonment, including the mystery surrounding her cult leader's death and the loss of her hands.

I decided to change jobs and to work for New York State in a juvenile detention center as a teacher, and I lost that job.

She has always had and loved family dogs, but working with therapy dogs in a juvenile detention center as a volunteer for 12 years allowed her to see the power of dogs.

This means that any offense would be a juvenile delinquency prosecution, which involves a secret trial without a jury, much shorter sentences for the same offenses (that would be served in a juvenile detention center rather than an adult jail or prison if incarceration was ordered), and the sealing of the record of the conviction when you become an adult.

Judge Rules Boy, 13, Accused of Killing Brother, 11, Should Remain in Juvenile Detention Center — Associated Press

Following her clerkship, Tammy was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, where she founded the Center's Juvenile Justice Project, helping children incarcerated in juvenile detention centers and prisons.

This CFC - J curriculum finds success in unique settings, with regular implementation in juvenile detention centers and orphanages.

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The report found the US to be holding 2.3 million people in more than 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, and 3,163 local jails, among other detention centers.

When CCA shares appeared on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1986, the company was operating two juvenile detention centers and two immigrant detention centers.

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 centeIn 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 centein a small chapel with nearly 50 teenage boys and girls at Casal del Marmo Penitential Institute for Minors, a juvenile detention center.

Start locally - helping out an elderly neighbor with some chores, volunteering at a rescue shelter, helping out the neighborhood school, being involved in a kids program at the local park, helping out at a local hospital, visiting a juvenile detention center on a regular basis.

I worked with adjudicated youth in both a juvenile detention center and in an outdoor nature program.

CANTON — With plans to build a youth detention center in St. Lawrence County stalled, officials have submitted a plan to the state to deal with expected uptick in juvenile offenders focusing on alternatives to incarceration.

Wall Street Journal article on the transformation of the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in the Bronx, quoting BP Adams.

Speaking outside Tryon Residential Center (a Fulton County juvenile detention facility that is currently empty and has been rumored to be poised for closure for some time now), Cuomo reminded reporters to keep in mind the human price of layoffs, stressing that each «number» that corresponds with a job being cut is actually connected to a family.

Kingsley's plans for New York include building a facility four times that size of the Minnesota green house in Fulton County at the site of the former Tyron 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 statcenter 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 statCenter, a relic from the crack epidemic of the 1980's and 1990's,» he said in a statement.

The plants are being grown at a converted grow facility at the former Tryon Juvenile Detention Center, an infamous state camp that closed in 2010.

He now works with teens who are incarcerated in the same juvenile detention center where he spent time.

The 12 - year longitudinal study examined 1,829 youth (1,172 males and 657 females, ages 10 to 18 years at baseline) who were detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago between 1995 and 1998.

«Kids for Cash» (2013): Prepare to be even more disgusted with the criminal justice system, as this film details the disturbing decision of a once - celebrated judge to sentence kids to outrageously long juvenile detention sentences in exchange for money from the private company building the detention center.

The movie's title refers to the act of transferring a young offender from a juvenile detention center to an adult penitentiary prematurely, and in the case of 19 - year - old Eric Love (Jack O'Connell), he's been relocated two years early due to the frequency and severity of his violent outbursts.

Creed is a far more conventional film than Fruitvale, and outside of an arresting opening scene set in an L.A. juvenile detention center it's certainly less politically charged.

My first reason lies in the answer to a question: When young people are released from the juvenile detention center, where are they going?

A Formica table separated us in a dingy room in the Oak Hill juvenile detention center, the jail for kids charged with crimes in Washington, D.C. Like every juvenile client I ever represented, Eddie had one pressing concern: He wanted to go home.

Topics to be covered include: • The # 1 reason hospitalized or homebound students often fail in traditional models • How a targeted online homebound education program can be less costly while improving educational outcomes • How K12 provides homebound students access to the same rigorous learning experience as their in - school classmates • How this model also works effectively in alternative learning environments, such as addiction centers or juvenile detention facilities

Sadly, that includes Washington's various schools for kids in trouble, such as the juvenile detention center, Next Step Public Charter School, and Maya Angelou.

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.

Selina Merrell, education consultant in the Rankin County School District and for the county's juvenile - detention center, says positive behavior intervention and support, or PBIS, starts with the right behavior from adults.

Dr. Bruening spent much of her education career in alternative schools, opening and leading a juvenile detention center and an expulsion program, as well as consulting to numerous juvenile justice programs and detention centers around the country.

As CEEAS takes over the school in the New Orleans juvenile detention center, its teachers hope to engage students lagging in classroom basics.

Programs for these students bear names like continuation schools, community schools, and opportunity schools, and include educational offerings in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers as well as comprehensive high schools.

Melissa Marini Švigelj - Smith has been an educator in Cleveland (Ohio) public high schools for nearly two decades, and has been teaching high school students at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center for four of those years.

The Office of Specialized Education Facilities and Family Engagement is responsible for educational services in state - operated programs, including hospitals, juvenile detention centers, mental health facilities, and the Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center.

The juvenile detention center in New Orleans was no different — until a new group of educators took over, with a different approach.

The Pet - Assisted Therapy program shares animals with people of all ages in care facilities such as nursing homes, hospitals and juvenile detention centers.

Recently, she took trained therapy dogs to a juvenile detention center to work with young men involved in the system.