
Youth Corrections Officials Launch Campaign to Shut All Youth Prisons
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A group of current and former corrections officials announced a campaign Wednesday to close the country’s remaining youth prisons and to...
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A group of current and former corrections officials announced a campaign Wednesday to close the country’s remaining youth prisons and to...
Civil legal aid services are a necessary tool in preventing and eliminating youth homelessness. Though most young people do not initially identify...
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By the age of 17, David Vanwetter had been in and out of detention perhaps a dozen times.
Washington state is vowing to keep young people like Vanwetter — often with complicated and troubled lives — from becoming homeless after they exit the jailhouse door. The state Legislature has ambitiously pledged to stop releasing youth from “publicly funded systems of care” — juvenile detention, foster care and mental health and drug treatment — into homelessness by the end of 2020. And that doesn’t mean putting them in a cab to a homeless shelter: Youth must have “safe and stable housing,” the law says.
Paul Reviere is sheriff of Lincoln County, a rural area with just under 8,000 people two hours east of Atlanta. In addition to maintaining safety, he gives what he calls “50-cent tours” to out-of-towners, showing off downtown Lincolnton.
Some states have made great strides in reforming their juvenile justice systems, moving away from incarceration to community-based alternatives.
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Probation is the most common court disposition for youth and therefore worthy of examination. “Getting probation right" often makes the difference between a youth exiting the justice system successfully or sliding deeper into the system.
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