Costs, safety fuel fears over criminal justice measure

(WSAW) – During his first year on the job, Wisconsin Department of Corrections incident reports, obtained by 7 investigates, show under Corrections Secretary Jon Litscher there have been more than five times as many recorded Division of Juvenile Corrections pepper spray incidents inside the state’s only youth prison, the Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake Schools in Irma.

The community garden at the Bay Regional Juvenile Justice Center is one of several gardens in the city whose purpose is to serve as a therapeutic activity.

With the signing of the state budget last week, New York joins 48 other states that do not automatically treat 16- and 17-year-olds as adults.

Johnathan recently told a room full of adults at the University of Washington Tacoma how he became part of the Surenos gang.

The 17-year-old talked about how he got expelled from school for doing a gang whistle down a hallway.

And he answered questions about what might have kept him out of the juvenile justice system in the first place.

PORT ANGELES, WA — A juvenile justice sales tax might appear on the Clallam County election ballot this November.

The three commissioners agreed Monday to continue exploring a one-tenth of 1 percent juvenile detention facility sales and use tax.

On Friday, the state budget passed, including a change to allow for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the age of juvenile delinquency would increase from 16 to 17-years-old beginning Oct. 1, 2018. It would then rise to 18 on Oct. 1, 2019.

HARTFORD, CT - Passing legislation revamping the juvenile justice system, one of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s signature initiatives this year, failed to make it through the Judiciary Committee Friday.

A new computer program is changing lives for juvenile inmates.

CARSON CITY — Nevada’s juvenile justice system may be getting an overhaul. The end result: Putting county and state juvenile justice officials on the same page.

A sweeping juvenile justice reform bill passed the Utah legislature this month and was enacted into law with broad support.

Sponsored by Representative Lowry Snow (R), House Bill 239 makes numerous changes to Utah’s juvenile code to keep lower-level delinquent youth out of costly detention and instead provide evidence-based, home-based counseling and supervision in the community.