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Ohio's youth prisons shouldn't be a place for kids under 14 and judges need more discretion about sentencing teens, a report to the governor says. Ohio shouldn't put kids under age 14 in prisons ...
The duties of the courts are outlined in Article IV, Section 4. Each of Ohio's 88 counties has a court of common pleas. The Ohio General Assembly (the state legislature) has the power to divide courts of common pleas into divisions, and has done so, establishing general, domestic relations, juvenile, and probate divisions:
Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility (Delaware County) - Formerly served as a male reception center and houses all girls who are in the custody of the DYS - It is located on the Scioto River. [12] The facility, which housed the William K. Willis High School, had 247 employees and 38 inmates, with 18 females and 20 males as of 2013.
30–60 years (sentence can exceed 60 years if there are aggravating circumstances; only an option if defendant was a juvenile) or life without parole Murder of a law enforcement officer Life without parole (if the defendant was a juvenile, a judge sets a term of 60 years)
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Mandatory minimum sentences found their way into the juvenile justice system in the late 1970s out of concern that some juveniles were committing very serious criminal offenses. Mandatory minimum sentences might be imposed in juvenile court for some very serious crimes, such as homicide, and apply to juveniles in the same manner as adults if ...
In the last fiscal year, Ohio had 175 teens bound over to adult court, 111 of which were required under current law. Give juvenile court judges discretion over how much time teens should serve for ...
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