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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.
A wave of oversight changes is coming to the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office.
Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton on Wednesday, July 15 announced the creation of the 21st Century Policing Compliance Initiative and Commission, the Police Reform Academy and a police hiring committee that will include non-police members in the hiring process.
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.
Former NBA player Jalen Rose, a member of Michigan’s famed Fab Five, has been an influential figure both on and off the court. However, nowadays, when Rose isn’t co-hosting Get Up!, ESPN’s morning sports talk show, or Jalen & Jacoby, a national sports radio show on ESPN Radio, or providing his analysis on NBA Countdown, he’s also using his resources to help further educational opportunities for students in Detroit at the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy.
Frustrated by a lack of treatment options, a sheriff in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula took to the Internet, pleading for help for a mentally ill Vietnam veteran stuck in his jail.
Advocates say it’s merely the latest example of a failed criminal justice mental health system.
A state requirement that high school students take classes in health and physical fitness might soon vanish in many Michigan schools.
A Republican-sponsored package that loosens high school graduation requirements — most prominently by making Algebra II optional — also includes opt-outs for health and gym.
The program bringing the mothers together is called Sisters United Resilient and Empowered, or SURE Moms. It’s run out of the same office as the local violence interruption program, which follows a model popular among cities trying to curb homicides and assaults, deploying former offenders and other outreach workers to steer high-risk young people away from solving conflicts with a gun or other weapon before it’s too late.
In 2018, 1,364 Michigan residents died of suicide -- a 44% increase since 1999.
That’s higher than the death toll from motor-vehicle accidents. Two and a half times higher than the number of Michigan homicides. Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in Michigan, and it’s the second-leading cause of death among Michigan residents age 15 to 24.
By now, the medical evidence is clear: Childhood trauma can have profound effects on physical and mental health.
Even so, Michigan physicians like Timothy Kval remain all too rare. Working out of a Muskegon clinic, Kval evaluates more than a patient’s symptoms, blood pressure readings and cholesterol scores.
He also screens adult patients for past traumatic events like physical abuse, neglect, domestic violence in the home or the loss of a parent through divorce or death.
Thousands of Michiganders battling opioid addictions are closer to treatment after the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services this week stripped away an administrative barrier to care.
The state on Tuesday removed “prior authorization” requirements for medications used to treat opioid use disorder, including buprenorphine, as part of medication-assisted treatment, or MAT.
Two bills introduced in the Michigan Senate on Thursday would seal juvenile court records from public view and create a process to automatically expunge juvenile records for those who stay out of trouble.
Michigan parents have good reason to be concerned. Bridge found:
In a five-year time period ending in 2009, about 10 Michigan girls aged 12 to 18 years old committed suicide each year, compared to about 17 a year over a five-year span ending in 2017.
About 37 boys of that same age committed suicide each year in the five-year time period ending in 2009. In the years leading to 2017, that had risen to nearly 57 boys a year.
Research shows that expungement — which makes certain criminal offenses invisible to the public while remaining visible to police and prosecutors — improves access to higher wages and better jobs without threatening public safety. But the process can seem labyrinthian for people who can’t afford a lawyer, and criminal justice advocates argue far too few people qualify under existing law.
