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A 2016 Juvenile Law Center report found that, in Indiana and at least 21 other states, families can essentially “pay their way out” of the juvenile justice system by paying informal adjustment ...
For the 2022-23 school year, the youngest student arrested on school grounds in Indiana was 8 years old. A total of 156 children, aged 12 and under, were arrested at schools that year.
Juvenile delinquency in the United States refers to crimes committed by children or young people, particularly those under the age of eighteen (or seventeen in some states). [1] Juvenile delinquency has been the focus of much attention since the 1950s from academics, policymakers and lawmakers. Research is mainly focused on the causes of ...
The Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility was a minimum, medium, and maximum state juvenile facility of the Indiana Department of Correction. It was located on Girls School Road, 8 miles (13 km) west of downtown Indianapolis. [1] The facility [when?] housed 185 female inmates ranging in age from twelve years to twenty-one years.
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act called for a "deinstitutionalization" of juvenile delinquents. The act required that states holding youth within adult prisons for status offenses remove them within a span of two years (this timeframe was adjusted over time). The act also provided program grants to states, based on their ...
Before California eliminated juvenile fees in 2017, Santa Clara County spent $450,000 to collect just $400,000 in fees in fiscal year 2014-15, according to a March 2017 report from the University ...
That suspect, a juvenile, is already facing charges for making a very similar threat against a school in Indiana. Charges could be filed against the juvenile for the threats to the local schools ...
Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.