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The jailing of children in the Philippines is a significant problem. According to Amnesty International , over 50,000 children in the Philippines have been arrested and detained since 1995. Torture , rape and other forms of cruel and inhumane treatment are a part of everyday life for those children while they are incarcerated.
An October 2022 riot at the Ohio Department of Youth Services' Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility in Massillon started when a new employee opened a cell door for a teen who asked for water.
Now the former correction officer finds herself behind bars, according to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Juvenile correction officer fired, arrested for giving inmates contraband, officials ...
Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term ...
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor / ˈ b j ʊ. k ɔː r /; Filipino: Kawanihan ng Koreksiyon; [3] formerly the Bureau of Prisons from 1905 to 1989) is an agency of the Department of Justice which is charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders, commonly known as Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL), who have been sentenced to ...
According to the new report, problems at Texas juvenile facilities have persisted for years, leading the state to place the Texas Juvenile Justice Department under conservatorship in 2007.
Breane Wingfield said she was abused at Los Angeles County juvenile detention facilities at a Senate hearing on reducing rape in US prisons 'No one interfered': Sex abuse in L.A. County juvenile ...
As of 2003, the JDAI had produced some promising results from their programs. Detention center populations fell by between 14% and 88% in JDAI counties over the course of 7 years (1996–2003). These same counties saw declines in juvenile arrests (an indicator of overall juvenile crime rates) during the same time period ranging from 37–54%. [41]