Sentences with phrase «youth and adult prisons»

Sisters Inside is horrified by the rates of imprisonment of children in Queensland and the evident human rights abuses they routinely experience in both youth and adult prisons.

We have long had detailed, consistent anecdotal evidence of the violations of human rights routinely directed against child prisoners in both youth and adult prisons.

Not exact matches

According to the executive order, «100 youth are incarcerated in New York State adult prisons facilities and approximately 550 youth are currently confined in local jails.»

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Tony Blair rejected his criticisms, citing a National Audit Office (NAO) report that showed the youth justice system had been «substantially transformed» since 1997 and highlighting plans to build a further 8,000 adult prison places.

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 reforms were first proposed by a panel convened last year by Cuomo also include changes to arrest procedures, removing youth from prisons that include adults and an expansion of services that would provide assistance to juveniles after their release.

Young said she agrees «that juveniles who commit serious crimes should be in separate secure facilities and not adult prisons, and that troubled youth should have counseling to get them on the straight and narrow.

For too long, «tough on crime» policies have deliberately targeted our black, brown, and working class communities — ICE is tearing apart families, our youth are being criminalized in school and treated as adults by our overzealous criminal justice system, and the legal system's reliance on cash bail continues to overcrowd our prisons, keeping the House of Correction facility open despite its notoriety for its decrepit conditions.

Programs include: Prison and Community Outreach Program (PCOP), the Adult Court Legal Information Program, the Youth Court Work Program, the Community Awareness Program for Immigrants (CAPI), the Aboriginal Cultural Support Program, Berkana and Sabrina House, and the Volunteer Program.

If you are charged with a serious offence and sentenced as a youth, you may serve time in a young offenders center but will not spend time in adult jails or prisons until you reach the age of 18.

Our work with children is focused on providing legal assistance to juveniles condemned to die in prison; challenging the placement of youth in adult jails and prisons, where they face an elevated risk of assault and sexual violence; and challenging the prosecution of very young children as adults.

I have worked 13 years in the Law Enforcement field as a Deputy Sheriff / Correctional Officer, Prison Guard, and Adult Probation officer, and a Texas Youth Commission Parole Officer.

Skye Bullen, the Community Data Manager from the Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project in Bourke told the symposium how the Maranguka project uses a community - based participatory research approach to reduce the high rate of Aboriginal children and young people's offending, reoffending and incarceration in adult prison and youth detention.

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).

Imprisonment is expensive: per year, prison beds cost some $ 100,000 for adults and some $ 200,000 in youth justice.

We are equally concerned about violations of human rights, systemic violence against children prisoners and practices which meet the international definition of torture, being routinely imposed on children in both adult and youth prisons throughout Queensland.

The $ 132 billion spending proposal includes notable investments in education for foster youth in the state; a new home visiting program for moms receiving welfare; and a bid to divert some young adults from prisons into juvenile facilities.