Not exact matches
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.
ALBANY, NY (05/28/2013)(readMedia)-- Just weeks after scathing
reports about the abysmal failure of the Close to Home
juvenile «reform» program diverting youthful offenders from state
juvenile justice
facilities to inadequate New York City based programs, the Cuomo administration is doubling down on bad policy and moving to close two more centers.
Bharara spelled out his office's findings in a scathing 79 - page
report addressed to Mayor deBlasio and two other top city officials, which seeks immediate reform at Rikers — particularly its three
juvenile jail
facilities.
The U.S. Department of Justice has
reported that youths held in adult
facilities are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted and Building Blocks for Youth, an initiative to promote a fair
juvenile justice system, has said youths in those
facilities are twice as likely to be injured by prison staff.
The Daily News
reported today about repeated failures with the governor's initiative to move
juvenile offenders from state run
facilities into New York City programs that are obviously unequipped to handle the dangerous offenders.
«We know that high rates of depression have been
reported among adolescents in
juvenile detention and correctional
facilities (e.g., 11 % in boys and 29 % in girls),» said Dr. Rongqin Yu, lead researcher at the Forensic Psychiatry Group at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
This special
report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation's schools, including youths in
juvenile detention
facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.
Your new
report talks about leveraging ESSA to support the education success for students in
juvenile justice
facilities.
It's a knee - jerk reaction to a TV program, the Four Corners
report documenting appalling abuse in a
juvenile detention
facility in the NT.
The case, first brought December 2007 by the
Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, says the
facility «has been plagued with escapes and
reports of poor conditions, including 21 - hour daily lockdowns, inadequate education and shoddy medical and mental health care.»
On Tuesday, officials in Yolo County, Calif., agreed to keep open a
juvenile detention
facility for undocumented immigrant youth after a
report revealed that many youth there have unmet mental...