Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (https://jjie.org/tag/early-release-juveniles/)
Across the world, we are all racing to save the most vulnerable in our societies from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, however, we are leaving some of our children trapped with nowhere to turn, nowhere to run.
As COVID-19 threatens California’s state-run youth detention facilities, the state needs to begin releasing young people from custody, say advocates who have tracked a rise in population in those facilities over the past year.
As the pandemic raged, a Louisiana activist flashed back to the last time an outside menace threatened to invade detention facilities and kill those helplessly locked away.