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A spokeswoman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department could not be immediately reached for comment, and the Justice Department did not announce any plans to enter into a consent decree with ...
Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado , 602 U.S. ___ (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court denied the States' motion to enter the consent decree because the proposed consent decree would have disposed of the United States' Compact claims without its consent.
The U.S. Justice Department says that Texas juvenile detention centers have violated children's Eighth and 14th Amendment rights, as well as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and ...
The process of introducing a consent decree begins with negotiation. [5] One of three things happens: a lawsuit is filed and the parties concerned reach an agreement prior to adjudication of the contested issues; a lawsuit is filed and actively contested, and the parties reach an agreement after the court has ruled on some issues; or the parties settle their dispute prior to the filing of a ...
In response, a youth-led criminal justice reform group, Finish the 5, spent the next five months at the Texas state Capitol, urging lawmakers to close Texas’ five remaining juvenile prisons. The Finish the 5 campaign, led by the Texas Center for Justice and Equity, proposes phasing out the five prisons by 2027. [3]
The department's first investigation into Kentucky juvenile centers began in February 1995 and moved forward with a consent decree nine months later, with federal oversight ending in 2001.
Juvenile detention centers in Texas, prisons for people under the age of 21, often termed juvenile delinquents, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term basis while awaiting trial or placement in a long-term care program.
This fall, a federal judge denied the group’s request to intervene in the consent decree. But the judge did set a Dec. 20 deadline for the school district to submit its final plans to transition ...