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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.
In the last fiscal year, Ohio had 175 teens bound over to adult court, 111 of which were required under current law. Give juvenile court judges discretion over how much time teens should serve for ...
Ohio's youth prisons shouldn't be a place for kids under 14 and judges need more discretion about sentencing teens, a report to the governor says.
A re-authorization bill, the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-385) was enacted in December 2018, [16] marking the first reauthorization since 2002. [1] addition to reauthorizing core parts of the existing JJDPA, the 2018 bill made several significant changes to juvenile justice law.
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.
It is also argued [15] that many juvenile jurisdictions are no longer taking a rehabilitative approach to juvenile delinquents, and are instead becoming more and more punitive, [15] and that because of some of the modifications within the juvenile justice system (e.g. required to waive access to a jury of peers [8]) these defendants are losing ...
Ohio's juvenile court judges responded to the USA TODAY Network Ohio's investigation into chaotic conditions in the state's youth detention system.