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Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-174, rescission of Executive Order 2020-156
From the Youth Correction Leaders for Justice: As prosecutors, youth correctional administrators, and other concerned individuals, we have too often witnessed the failures of our country’s system of youth justice. The United States has long been the global leader in youth incarceration, locking up young people at a far higher rate than other industrialized nations, resulting in further trauma and fraying family and social ties, rather than improving children’s lives. By any measure, our overuse of incarceration for youth is ineffective, inefficient, and inhumane.
A youth-led group of activists organized an overnight demonstration Wednesday to protest the detention of a 15-year-old high school student who has been held in a juvenile facility since mid-May for violating probation when she didn't complete her online schoolwork during the coronavirus pandemic.
After an initial decrease in the youth detention population since the pandemic began, the rate of release has slowed, and the gap between white youth and Black youth has grown.
MDHHS announced on Thursday emergency rules for restricting dangerous restraints of children in child-caring institutions.
A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother.
Video footage released Tuesday shows a 16-year-old boy throwing food at a Kalamazoo youth home, then being tackled and restrained for 12 minutes by seven staff members, sparking fresh outrage over the incident and his death two days later.
Juvenile Justice updates pertaining to COVID-19 from the past two weeks.
We’ve taken a break from posting during this unprecedented crisis but would like to provide the following list of articles pertaining to how COVID-19 is impacting the juvenile justice system nationwide. We will begin to post more regular updates in the near future.
3 staff, 2 residents at Kent County Juvenile Detention have coronavirus
Gov. Whitmer restricts entry into juvenile justice and care facilities
Opinion | Reducing youth incarceration can help curtail spread of coronavirus
Juvenile justice system faces coronavirus challenges - Toledo
Coronavirus in juvenile detention is a 'nightmare scenario,' doctors and advocates say
Advocates Demand Illinois Release Youth From Juvenile Detention Centers Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC MAKES THE CASE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
More than 200 inmates released over COVID-19 concerns, DA says
Here Is How California Must Protect Youth In State Lock-Ups During The COVID-19 Crisis
New York is being sued for the release of teenagers at risk for coronavirus
Nine in 10 children in the juvenile justice system report experiencing trauma of some kind, and 70% struggle with mental health disorders — rates much higher than the general population, though depression and anxiety, unfortunately, remain common among Utah kids. The high likelihood is that a child involved in criminal activity has already suffered far beyond their fair share. It seems obvious — and the continuing horrors of Trump’s immigration policies demonstrate — that the stress associated with prosecution and detainment can only serve to traumatize them further.
