Reductions in Youth Aids Come at the Wrong TimeThe Youth Aids funding concept was established in 1980 as a way to both control state spending for juvenile correctional services and incentivize counties to develop alternatives to sending delinquent youth to the state juvenile system. Youth Aids funds are apportioned to counties based on...
On July 1st, Mississippi amended a law that prevents most 17-year-old misdemeanor and nonviolent felony offenders from being tried as adults. Felonies including rape, murder, and armed robbery may still warrant charges in the adult court system. Mississippi is the latest and 38th state to make this positive step in juvenile justice....
Lost sometimes in all the rhetoric about this budget – and prior ones – and how we can’t afford to return 17-year olds to the juvenile system is the simple fact that kids should not be housed with adults. No one speaks more eloquently and passionately about this issue than Vicky Gunderson from Onalaska whose son Kirk committed suicide...
In his budget proposal, the Governor accepted the Department of Corrections’ recommendation to close two secure juvenile institutions. Ethan Allen School for boys is going to close, meaning residents will be transferred to Lincoln Hills. The plan also calls for the closing of Southern Oaks Girls School, forcing the transfer of those...
A recent Administrator Memo released by the Division of Juvenile Corrections outlines some of the changes occurring as the result of consolidating three juvenile correctional institutions into one location – at Lincoln Hills School (LHS). While practical challenges remain as a result of the distance from Lincoln Hills to where most of...
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