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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.
[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 ...
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).
Miami Youth Academy; Okeechobee Juvenile Offender Corrections Center ; Staff secure: Pompano Substance Abuse Treatment Center (Pompano Beach) [67] Palm Beach Youth Academy (West Palm Beach) Non-secure Broward Youth Treatment Center (Pembroke Pines) [68] Miami Halfway House (Kendall, unincorporated Miami-Dade County) [69] [70]
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.
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 ...
Each interventions targets a specific behavior [13] MST interventions should match the developmental age of the child for which they are created [13] Family members are needed to enact interventions [13] Evaluation of interventions occur from multiple perspectives [13] Each intervention is made to be used long term and in multiple settings [13]
In 1974, the United States Congress enacted the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (Title III), establishing 60 programs to serve runaway youths nationwide. In 1976, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services was incorporated with an office in Tampa. In 1981, the Florida Legislature provided state funds for runaway services for the first time.