Sentences with phrase «youth prisons»

So why not shift kids from the costly youth prisons here?

«With campaign season right around the corner, it'll be interesting to see what Gov. Walker changes his mind about next,» Hintz said, referring to Walker's recent proposal to move juvenile inmates out of a troubled youth prison in Irma and open smaller facilities around the state, a plan long - proposed by Democrats.

Wisconsin's troubled youth prison would close by mid-2020 and its inmates would move into new or retrofitted prison that could be built around the state, under a bipartisan bill released on Tuesday.

Kollmann says about 420 youth are currently held in the state's youth prison system.

In its recent report, Amnesty International described a systemic culture of secrecy and mistreatment of children, mainly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, in Queensland youth prisons.

Juveniles will no longer be housed at a Wisconsin youth prison that's been under federal investigation and the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging inmate abuse, Gov. Scott Walker announced on Thursday.

ALBANY — Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo made news earlier this week when he visited the empty Tryon Residential Center for Boys and decried the fact that there were still 30 state workers there, although there had been no youths in the Johnstown youth prison since July.

He has worked in a charter school, locked youth prison facility, comprehensive high school and in the middle school setting.

BMW's Benoit Jacob told us in an exclusive interview that hybrid and electric technologies are changing the way cars are designed and a US - based student designed a range of furniture for youth prison cells.

His other ACLU cases addressed youth prisons, police detentions of pedestrians and motorists, free speech, religious liberty, and drug testing of public housing residents.

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.

Also launched with a boost from the Obama administration: A campaign spearheaded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Harvard Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice is calling for closure of all the remaining youth prisons in the United States, meaning large - scale, high - security incarceration facilities.

Researchers at the Children and Family Justice Center presented lawmakers with a «report card» on the status of the state's youth prison system.

Newly - appointed Pope Francis made international headlines when he announced that instead of delivering Holy Thursday Mass from St Peter's Basilica, he would instead visit a youth prison on the outskirts...

Newly - appointed Pope Francis made international headlines when he announced that instead of delivering Holy Thursday Mass from St Peter's Basilica, he would instead visit a youth prison on the outskirts of Rome.

The top dentist for New York's youth prisons has pleaded guilty to official misconduct stemming from his arrest in November on charges that he said he was working on state time while he was actually treating patients at his private practices in Amsterdam and Saratoga Springs.

The Cuomo administration and its predecessors have for several years been downsizing the once - vast upstate system of adult and youth prisons.

Mayor Bloomberg has pledged to send far fewer juvenile delinquents to the state's youth prisons.

He will seek to cut 300 to 400 beds, representing more than one - third of the roughly 1,000 beds at the youth prisons.

«The bill would also establish an independent office to monitor and, where necessary, investigate problems at the state's youth prisons»

This report delivers a clear and compelling call to close these youth prisons.

While the original sentence was a short one, as a result of the accumulation of hundreds of further convictions against her arising from disciplinary incidents that took place while she was in youth prison, she remained in custody.

Of the 223 young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Bourke, 47 (10 to 24 year olds) were on remand or had been sentenced, representing half of the youth prison population.

The failure of youth prisons to respond effectively to the needs of children has most notably been detailed recently through media coverage of the alleged mistreatment of children at both the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre and in the last few days in Victorian youth prisons — including the use of tear gas, restraints, spit hoods, beatings and extreme isolation to punish children.

In the four 4 years to 2015, there were decreases in the youth prison population in all states and territories except Queensland and the Northern Territory, where the number of young people in prisons on an average night increased.