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In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.
Gov. Mike DeWine wants a working group to examine problems found by an eight-month investigation into Ohio's youth prisons and local detention centers.
A look at Ohio's youth prisons and juvenile detention centers, overwhelmed by violence, trauma and staff shortages. | Your Nov. 13 Daily Briefing.
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.
Wisconsin lawmakers have offered few remedies for deteriorating prison conditions spotlighted this year by investigative journalism and criminal charges against nine Waupun prison officials ...
Young offenders are “much more reactive,” said Bob Houston, the former director of the Nebraska corrections system. “They don’t think things through like adults.” Juvenile justice experts say that a better way to handle misbehaving young inmates is through a positive incentive program, where kids lose points if they act out.
The popular news media plays a crucial role in promoting the myth of a new generation of young "super-predators" threatening the public. [9] Despite documented decreases in youth crime, particularly in violent crime which indicate a 68% decline in youth homicide in the 1990s, overall media coverage of youth crime is increasing. [ 10 ]
A report by California's Office of the Inspector General states "the effects of this eight-week isolation and service deprivation may have contributed to the Ward’s suicide." [8] Don Specter, director of the Prison Law Office, was quoted as saying "This is the first report that directly links their [i.e., the guards'] practices with a death." [7]