Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Temarkus Washington says the sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager at a troubled Chicago youth detention center still gives him nightmares. The lawsuits, filed Monday on behalf of 193 men and ...
September 23, 2024 at 10:20 AM. ILLINOIS - A staggering number of new lawsuits were filed Monday adding to the hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse within Illinois' juvenile detention system ...
The Free Press has reported since 2022 on the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Center's problems with overcrowding and understaffing, creating conditions critics have called inhumane.
The United States incarcerates more of its youth than any other country in the world, through the juvenile courts and the adult criminal justice system, which reflects the larger trends in incarceration practices in the United States. In 2010, approximately 70,800 juveniles were incarcerated in youth detention facilities alone. [1]
School-to-prison pipeline. In the United States, the school-to-prison pipeline (SPP), also known as the school-to-prison link, school–prison nexus, or schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track, is the disproportionate tendency of minors and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to become incarcerated because of increasingly harsh school and ...
www.illinois.gov /idjj /. The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) is the code department [1][2] of the Illinois state government that acts as the state juvenile corrections agency. The department was formed on July 1, 2006. Previously, the Illinois Department of Corrections managed Illinois' juvenile facilities.
Criminal justice reform seeks to address structural issues in criminal justice systems such as racial profiling, police brutality, overcriminalization, mass incarceration, and recidivism. Reforms can take place at any point where the criminal justice system intervenes in citizens’ lives, including lawmaking, policing, sentencing and ...
A county leader says two juvenile court judges should be fired after an audit found they canceled or postponed most of their cases, contributing to overcrowding at the detention center.