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Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility (Delaware County) - Formerly served as a male reception center and houses all girls who are in the custody of the DYS - It is located on the Scioto River. [12] The facility, which housed the William K. Willis High School, had 247 employees and 38 inmates, with 18 females and 20 males as of 2013.
Teen or youth courts provide an alternative court system through which juvenile offenders can be heard and judged by their peers.Most teen courts have strict guidelines for youth volunteers who participate in the sentencing process, which generally includes training, a modified bar exam, peer mentoring and compliance with a code of conduct.
[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 ...
Statewide, child victims are treated like witting prostitutes and often prosecuted for solicitation, drug trafficking and money laundering, say advocates such as Micayla Wilson of Gracehaven, a ...
Young offenders are “much more reactive,” said Bob Houston, the former director of the Nebraska corrections system. “They don’t think things through like adults.” Juvenile justice experts say that a better way to handle misbehaving young inmates is through a positive incentive program, where kids lose points if they act out.
The Second Chance Act of 2007 (), titled "To reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve reentry planning and implementation, and for other purposes," was submitted to the House by Representative Danny Davis (D-IL) to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize ...
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.
In January, the state gave YSI a $7.3 million, five-year contract to run the new Broward Youth Treatment Center, a 28-bed program less than a mile away from Thompson. And this summer, YSI won contracts to take over two more state facilities, one in the Tampa area and another in Jacksonville. Read the first part of this series »