Sentences with phrase «in juvenile detention»

Many states now have drug court, where kids do not have to serve sentences in a juvenile detention center as long as they're in treatment and clean.

I received similar advice from a veteran teacher who was my colleague when I taught in a juvenile detention facility.

We know that on an average night, our children between 10 - 17 years make up more than half (55 %) of all children in juvenile detention.

He was first found three months later in juvenile detention for stealing food from a supermarket.

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.

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.

Usually, boys and girls are taught separately, and because students in juvenile detention can be anywhere from 10 to 17 years old, different grade levels are represented in each classroom.

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.

I get some letters from teens in juvenile detention centers and they always tell me they wish they had read the book before they had made the poor choices they did to get there.

In late 2014, the federal departments of justice and education released a joint letter urging school officials to improve education in juvenile detention facilities.

They can never look at a young man in juvenile detention without wondering why the schools he attended did not intervene in his journey from the classroom to prison.

You know he'll end up in juvenile detention soon.

They have also adapted this intervention and treatment manual for adolescent boys residing in juvenile detention as well as for college students found responsible for sexual misconduct.

«Our two most expensive programs serve students who are in prolonged hospital stays and students in juvenile detention,» she tells me.

Teens in juvenile detention learn to rebuild bikes through new program.

Facebook is supporting a proposed bill in California that would give incarcerated youth in juvenile detention facilities the right to Internet access.

In the beginning James proposed, developed and led programs for at - risk youth in juvenile detention in both an inner - city community program and at a residential treatment facility.

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.»

He is being held in a juvenile detention facility in Alabama while the New Rochelle Police Department and the Westchester County District Attorney's office work out the details of his extradition.

Project PITS was created specifically with my rescue pit bulls in mind as we felt the target of the program (adolescents in juvenile detention facilities) would best identify with them.

Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) grits through his grillz that, after a stint in juvenile detention, he's «trappin»»; Kevin (André Holland) talks of a marriage, kids, and an amiable divorce.

Many schools in juvenile detention facilities lack basic instruction and educational services, making students» transition out that much harder.

He's the illegitimate child of the former heavyweight champ, and spent his early life in juvenile detention and floating between group homes in Los Angeles, until Apollo's widow Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad) tracked him... read more

A 15 - year - old Wasatch High school student was arrested last week and remains in juvenile detention after posting a threatening video on social media.

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

Malcolm Shabazz was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for manslaughter and arson

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.

Maximilian, meanwhile, is looking at a sentence between six years to eight years and eight months behind bars in juvenile detention.

With a few months remaining on his sentence in a juvenile detention facility, Reese struggles to overcome racism, prejudice, and his volatile personality before he copes with life on the outside.

Human Rights Watch have reported that around half of the women in prison and almost all of the girls in juvenile detention are imprisoned on accusations of «moral crimes».

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.

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.

The movie shows confidence from its first moments, a prologue set in a juvenile detention hall where the camera travels through a hallway, into a room where two kids are fighting.

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.

«Minors» is based on Cretton's experience working in residential foster care, Coogler's East Bay area upbringing and time working in a juvenile detention facility and Hodge's experience teaching under - served youth in Bay Area continuation schools and her 15 years of working with local youth.

Born after Creed died fighting Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, Adonis never knew his father — though, as we see from the opening scene, set in 1998 Los Angeles in a juvenile detention centre, he's inherited the champ's cast - iron punch.

My sessions at the center are intent on leaving those kids with a simple challenge: «You might be presently in juvenile detention, but juvenile detention does not have to be in you.»

If I had to choose one speaking experience as the most unique or gratifying of them all, I would have to say that it would be the times I have been called upon to meet with kids in the juvenile detention center in my community.

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.

Related: Chronically absent: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi?

«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.

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.

According to the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 38 percent of all youth in juvenile detention read below the fourth - grade level.

• New limits on the amount of time youth can be kept in juvenile detention or secure confinement; and

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.