Sentences with phrase «up youth justice»

The pressing need to explore justice reinvestment in Victorian is largely driven by prison overcrowding (prisoner numbers up 42 % since 2004), disproportionately high percentage of Aboriginal people making up the youth justice and adult prison populations, record high re-offending rates of prisoners at 40 %, and the rocketing expenditure (over $ 1 billion last year).

But cutting the YJB won't save much money — around # 100,000 over three years — and threatens, through undermining a joined - up youth justice system, to actually increase costs over the long term through higher criminality and the attendant costs to individuals and the state.

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We now have, I hope, an opportunity for a grown up debate on how to make our youth justice system work, for the young people within it and the communities it protects — by examining the root causes of youth offending, what preventative action can be taken, how to most appropriately punish and reform offenders and rehabilitate them back into our society.

As the rally wrapped up, Ms. Mallory also plugged Gathering for Justice and a protest scheduled for June 2 to honor Ramarley Graham, an unarmed black youth police killed in his Bronx home in 2012.

2face, while addressing journalists on Wednesday in Maiduguri immediately after the visit, said, «Unless government and politicians step up their games by doing the needful in eradicating poverty among the masses, particularly youths, and do justice to all manner of people, ending insurgency and other forms of violence currently happening in some parts of the north east and the country as a whole may be difficult and unrealistic.»

Riverhead's youth court hears cases involving individuals up to age 18, with referrals from the town's justice court and from family court, Ms. Maccagli said.

New York must catch up to the rest of the nation and pass legislation to raise the age of criminal responsibility before another generation of our youth have to suffer the consequences,» said Victoria Khazzam, Supervisor of the Restorative Justice and Custody Visitation programs at the Westchester Rockland Mediation Center

«The frequent use of out - of - school suspension results in increased dropout rates and heightened risk of youth winding up in the juvenile justice system,» stated the study's lead author Daniel J. Losen.

Unfortunately, many American Indian youth end up in the juvenile justice system because they are exposed to risk factors that increase their chances of becoming involved in delinquency.

Youth graduates from local food justice organization FOODWHAT head up fun, educational activities for all ages — 3 to 103 — at the FOODSHED PROJECT events.

Her latest project, Get Up Stand Up (April to September 2015), is a site specific audio / visual installation at the Galleries of Justice Museum, Nottingham, exploring global civil rights and its relevance to today's contemporary youth and communities.

Youth Leadership Council members at Intermedia Arts will facilitate a discussion among youth artists in the gallery framed by the exhibition Hands Up, Don't Shoot — HER and the themes of race, gender, equity, and social jusYouth Leadership Council members at Intermedia Arts will facilitate a discussion among youth artists in the gallery framed by the exhibition Hands Up, Don't Shoot — HER and the themes of race, gender, equity, and social jusyouth artists in the gallery framed by the exhibition Hands Up, Don't Shoot — HER and the themes of race, gender, equity, and social justice.

Founded in 2009 by filmmaker Paul Haggis, the organization teams up with world - renowned artists to provide education for Haitian youths, and has expanded from its Academy for Peace and Justice into secondary schooling programs, and even a free college for art and technology.

Beginning in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia on July 4th and covering 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles), the cyclists will eventually end up in the Turkish town of Sinop by mid-August — just in time for the twentieth annual Ecotopia, a gathering that brings youth from all over the world to discuss social justice and environmental issues.

Climate justice was on the agenda at the Young Friends of the Earth Europe summer camp 2015 in Brittany, north - west France, as 100 European youth gathered to discuss action plans and environmental justice in the run - up to this December's UN climate talks in Paris — the COP21.

Youth, no less than anybody else, can get caught up accidentally in the criminal justice system by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or by being misidentified, or by saying something incorrect, just like anybody else can.

Last week, the Liberal government proposed a new bill, Bill C - 75, to modernize Canada's criminal justice system and speed up court proceedings by amending the Criminal Code, Youth Criminal Justice Act and othejustice system and speed up court proceedings by amending the Criminal Code, Youth Criminal Justice Act and otheJustice Act and other laws.

Whether it is standing up against the Administration's unlawful ban on Muslim travelers, challenging the Department of Justice's effort to halt NWIRP from doing important limited representation work for people at the detention center, or protecting the rights of undocumented immigrant youth, NWIRP provides a critical voice for those marginalized by federal policies.

The program has now been expanded to the Malmsbury Youth Justice Precinct, set up under Victoria's unique dual track system to allow adult courts to sentence young offenders aged 18 - 20 to serve custodial sentences in youth detention instead of adult prYouth Justice Precinct, set up under Victoria's unique dual track system to allow adult courts to sentence young offenders aged 18 - 20 to serve custodial sentences in youth detention instead of adult pryouth detention instead of adult prison.

Coming up next in the series: • Findings of the Ombudsman's investigation into rehabilitation prospects in Victoria's overcrowded prisons • The Koori cultural program for young Aboriginal people in the Melbourne Youth Justice Centre at Parkville.

Addressing the Needs of Multi-System Youth: Strengthening the Connection between Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice (PDF - 2580 KB) The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform & Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps (2011) Provides communities with a consolidated framework for serving crossover youth that incorporates the most up - to - date research, lessons from ongoing reform efforts, and an innovative collaborative management strucYouth: Strengthening the Connection between Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice (PDF - 2580 KB) The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform & Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps (2011) Provides communities with a consolidated framework for serving crossover youth that incorporates the most up - to - date research, lessons from ongoing reform efforts, and an innovative collaborative management strucyouth that incorporates the most up - to - date research, lessons from ongoing reform efforts, and an innovative collaborative management structure.

The number of sessions can be increased up to 20 for youth with more severe problems such as involvement with the juvenile or criminal justice system.

(The list of agencies signed up to the campaign include: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Congress of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Nurses Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory Australian Indigenous Doctors Association Amnesty International Australia Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Australian Council of Social Service Australian Council for International Development Australian General Practice Network Australian Nursing Federation Australian Red Cross Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Caritas Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Diplomacy Training Program Fred Hollows Foundation Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth Indigenous Law Centre Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council National Association of Community Legal Centres National Children's and Youth Law Centre National Rural Health Alliance Oxfam Australia Professor Daniel Tarantola, Chair of Health and Human Rights, University of New South Public Health Association of Australia Quaker Services Australia Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Rural Doctors Association of Australia Save the Children Australia Telethon Institute for Child Health Research UNICEF Australia Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre)