A key D.C. Council member voiced her support Wednesday for a new bill aiming to address repeat juvenile offenders in the city, but some local activists don’t think the proposal gets to the heart of why so many District youth turn to crime. Source link
CHICAGO — Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a lawsuit filed Monday by 95 men and women housed at the youth centers as children. The lawsuit details alleged incidents of abuse from 1996 to 2017, including gang rape, forced oral sex, beatings […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service is offering a reward for information about the shooting death of a dolphin in Louisiana. The juvenile dolphin was found on West Mae’s Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, on March 13. A posthumous examination of the marine mammal found that it had been shot, with multiple bullets […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service is offering a reward for information about the shooting death of a dolphin in Louisiana. The juvenile dolphin was found on West Mae’s Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, on March 13. A posthumous examination of the marine mammal found that it had been shot, with multiple bullets […]
Maryland clearly has a lot on its plate at the moment, particularly in Baltimore where they have bridges collapsing and shipping lanes closed down. But they still have a serious crime problem running out of control, especially when it comes to juvenile crime rates. Now the state legislature has finally been moved to do something […]
Baltimore, Maryland is a city with a higher per capita murder rate than Kabul and plenty of voters and elected officials have been sounding the alarm over this recently. Juvenile crime rates over the past couple of years have been increasingly worrisome, with armed auto thefts and carjackings increasing in number. Responding to the outcry, […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s juvenile justice system has lingering problems with the use of force and isolation techniques and has done little to implement a 2017 state audit’s suggestions for improvement, according to a report released Wednesday. The new report from Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball says the state’s juvenile detention centers lack clear policies concerning […]
Two teenage girls held at a troubled Kentucky juvenile detention center were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions, including a padded cell with no toilet, a federal class-action lawsuit filed this week alleges. Source link
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