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Lawmakers are moving toward consensus on changes to Maryland’s juvenile justice system, discussing how to address crime by children ages 10 to 12 and get them into rehabilitation programs that ...
The Maryland House of Delegates voted on March 30, 2021, approving the bill with a vote of 88–48. The Maryland Senate voted to approve the bill, 32–15, on April 2, 2021. Governor Larry Hogan vetoed the bill on April 8, 2021. [4] [5] On April 10, 2021, the Maryland General Assembly overrode Governor Hogan's veto, passing the bill. [2]
That county’s state’s attorney pointed to the Child Interrogation Protection Act, a law passed in 2022, and the Juvenile Restoration Act, a law passed in 2021, as legislation in need of revision.
Law firms and attorneys began advertising services to abuse survivors shortly after the bill was signed into law. [8] Lawsuits against the archdiocese as well as Maryland's juvenile justice system and school system were filed days after the Child Victims Act went into effect on October 1, 2023.
Just one day after Governor Wes Moore declared public safety as his top priority, lawmakers began hearings on new bills aimed at fixing Maryland's juvenile justice system.
The agency currently known as the Maryland Department of Juvenile Service was originally created in the form of several training schools under the jurisdiction of the Maryland State Department of Education in 1922, transferred to the now-defunct Maryland Department of Public Welfare from 1943 to 1966, previously named as the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services from 1966 to 1969, reduced ...
The state of Maryland announced plans to build new facilities for children and women in 2007, amidst investigations by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) calling BCDC "deliberately indifferent" to the condition of inmates. [1] These plans were tentative; the DOJ demanded maintenance for existing facilities, but not the creation of new ones. [2]
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.