Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative in the News
These recent news articles highlight Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) practices, policies and programs. The links will open a new window and take you directly to the media outlets' web sites. Registration may be required.
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The Success of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
From the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on March 12, 2012
Bart Lubow is the designer and manager of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. The JDAI focuses on reducing unnecessary detention of juveniles in the nation.
Program Focuses On Alternatives To Juvenile Detention
From the Rapid City Journal on March 13, 2012
Sometimes it can be difficult to distinguish between a troubled child and a troublemaker. But in either case, a new method of dealing with juveniles is designed to make a difference in their lives while saving the county money at the same time.
Union County Youth Shelter Offers Options To Courts And Youth Services
From NJToday.net on March 20, 2012
In Linden the Union County Youth Detention Center is home to up to 80 young people who have made mistakes and committed crimes and have been deemed by the courts to require incarceration. Architecturally, the center is classified as a corrections facility or a prison.
High-Risk Youths Topic of Tiger Bay Club Meeting
From the Pensacola News Journal on April 5, 2012
Bart Lubow will speak on “Alternatives To Incarcerating Children” at a luncheon meeting of the Panhandle Tiger Bay Club at noon April 20.
Incarcerated Childhood
From RT.com on April 5, 2012
They’re not old enough to drive, drink or vote, but in America kids as young as 7 years old can be tried as adults.
Detention of Non-violent New Jersey Juvenile Delinquents Saw Over 50 Percent Decrease In 2011
From New Jersey Newsroom on April 12, 2012
The state Juvenile Justice Commission Thursday release the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Data Report for 2011, which shows that the join initiative of the JJC, New Jersey Judiciary, and numerous county agencies.
Ramsey County: Locking Up Fewer Kids, And So Far, Less Crime
From the TwinCities.com on April 21, 2012
You can hear the superintendent’s words echo from the white walls of his empty cellblock. “Many days, you’d walk around here, in a pod designed to handle 12 kids, we had 16, 17 kids in there,” said Steve Poynter, the head of Ramsey County’s juvenile detention center.
Detaining Fewer Juveniles Leads to Better Outcomes
From the Houston Chronicle on April 24, 2012
This week, national leaders and experts on juvenile justice policy will gather in Houston to discuss the lessons learned during the past few years of juvenile detention reform, and the prospects for further reforms.
Casey CEO: Reform Justice System that Destroys Young Lives
From Youth Today on April 25, 2012
Patrick McCarthy, President & CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, today called for transforming the juvenile justice in the United States into “a system that saves young lives rather than one destroying young lives. It will happen if the people working with youth ‘have the will, commitment and the courage’ to make the changes needed.
Alternatives to Youth Detention Conference Opens In Houston
From Youth Today on April 25, 2012
Texas State Senator John Whitmore came to the podium last night at the opening of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) conference in Houston and got right to the core work of the JDAI. Five years ago, he said, 5,000 youth in Texas were incarcerated at any one time. Today the number is down to 1,5000. It has happened, he said, without compromising public safety.
Juvenile Justice System Gives Kids Second Chance
From Shore News Today on April 26, 2012
Increasing numbers of Atlantic County at-risk youth are turning their lives around by taking advantage of second chances afforded through the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative.
Bart Lubow on the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI)
From the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on April 30, 2012
Bart Lubow, who has been working for more than 20 years to reduce the number of youth being sent to detention centers, told a gathering of 700 attendees at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) conference in Houston last week that now, “may prove to be a unique moment in the juvenile justice history, a time when, as a nation, we shed some of the system’s worst baggage – including our unnecessary and often inappropriate reliance on secure confinement” of youth.
Families Demand Say in ‘Dysfunctional’ System
From Youth Today on April 30, 2012
Jeannette Bocanegra, a community organizer from New York City, told a gathering of juvenile justice practitioners and advocates in Houston last week that as a mom with a child who was incarcerated, “This system made me feel like I was a dysfunctional parent, a bad parent … without realizing I raised six other children who never went into the system.”
Juvenile Justice Reform Pays Off
From the Houston Chronicle on May 1, 2012
Several years ago, Texas’ youth corrections system was in a state of disrepair, holding thousands of kids and entangled in a massive sex abuse scandal. Since then, Texas has implemented sweeping reform, shifting the burden of handling juvenile nonviolent offenders from the state to counties.
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