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  2. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] [17] A summary of the 2018 act prepared by the Annie E. Casey Foundation noted that the act incorporates key provisions of the Youth PROMISE Act, including funding for community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment programs for youth at risk of delinquency; [2] requires states applying for federal funding to submit a three ...

  3. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 youth populations, and created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

  4. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    More than 40 percent of youth offenders sent to one of Florida’s juvenile prisons wind up arrested and convicted of another crime within a year of their release, according to state data. In New York state, where historically no youth offenders have been held in private institutions, 25 percent are convicted again within that timeframe.

  5. Youth intervention - Wikipedia

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    Advocates for Youth is a private national nonprofit organization committed to youth intervention programming focused on pregnancy prevention and other issues. The once-popular Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program and The Center to Prevent Youth Violence are two now-closed organizations that were also intervention-oriented, the ...

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    The release added, “Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) is available to Florida businesses and residents in FEMA disaster-declared counties whose employment or self-employment was lost or ...

  7. The cycle of crime and poverty traps juvenile offenders ... - AOL

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    As I know firsthand from my own experiences when I was locked up at the age of 10 for stealing, this is a reform that could prevent the cycle of poverty and incarceration that traps too many youth ...

  8. American juvenile justice system - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.

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