Organizational Change in Juvenile Justice
The New York State Juvenile Justice Steering Committee has released a strategic plan for implementing juvenile justice reforms in the state. Components of the plan include the development of system governance and coordination, an effective continuum of diversion, supervision, treatment, and confinement, accountability of system and actors within the system, shared data and information [...]
This month, the National Center for Youth in Custody, which is co-directed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators and the National Partnership for Juvenile Services, has been launched. The Center’s mission is described in this way: to advance the field of juvenile justice by providing training and technical assistance and by [...]
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has just released a report in which they make a case for reducing juvenile incarceration. The report provides data on the extent of confinement, its costs, and the alternatives to incarceration which are available. The report provides comprehensive and up-to-date data on the issues surrounding the incarceration of young [...]
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