The Michigan Juvenile Detention Association will continue to be a national leader in promoting and sustaining of exemplary juvenile detention, residential treatment, and community based services for youth and their families.
The Michigan Juvenile Detention Association is committed to the highest standard of professional ethics, overall excellence in the care and custody of youth, and the provision of services to their families.
The child detention royal commission has uncovered a “failing” juvenile justice system that is “punitive not rehabilitative” and leaves youngsters, most of them Aboriginal, “more damaged” than before they were incarcerated, according to an interim report.
