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This document is meant to assist agencies and facilities in their PREA compliance efforts.
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This report provides a clear blueprint for closing youth prisons and replacing them with community-based juvenile justice services.
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While it echoes others’ observations that the confusing jurisdictional web is part of the reason Native youth remain neglected and invisible in federal and state systems, and ill-served by tribal systems, this Article’s detailed analysis of the law reveals much greater potential for tribal control under current laws than others assume exists.
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This brief describes an ongoing evaluation of PACE that will help policymakers and practitioners understand and strengthen the program’s effects for at-risk girls on a range of outcomes, including education, delinquency, risky behavior, social support, and mental health.
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PREA standards for juvenile facilities are divided into the following sections: Prevention Planning, Responsive Planning, Training and Education, Screening for Risk of Sexual Victimization and Abusiveness, Reporting, Official Response Following a Resident Report, Investigations, Discipline, Medical and Mental Care, Data Collection and Review, Audits, Auditing and Corrective Action, and State Compliance.
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In 2010, South Carolina passed the Sentencing Reform Act, enacting comprehensive criminal justice reforms.
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Little is known about youth who were previously placed in a detention facility and what factors predict a subsequent recidivism to placement.
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The goal of this exploratory research was to hear from girls from the First Coast (Duval, Clay, Nassau, Baker, and St.
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This website provides access to all reports released by the BJS related to juveniles involved in the justice system.
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In 2012, Georgia passed comprehensive criminal justice reform legislation.
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This brief, from the CSG Justice Center, is designed to help state and local officials better support young adults in the justice system.
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Together, the Prison Law Office and Stanislaus County developed the Girls Juvenile Justice Initiative (GJJI) in order to address the county’s lack of sex-responsive resources for justice-involved girls.