73 percent of imprisonments over 30 days were for children awaiting placement or outside programing. (i.e. we are keeping kids in prison for lack of a better place/lack of community-based support.)
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Lisa Macaluso: "Representatives from immigrant communities and poor communities reported that youth feel targeted, not protected by police." There are disparities in police contact in poor/immigrant/communities of color. Kids report being stopped by police and asked for ID.
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CCLP: Data shows diversion works. We need to create more opportunities to divert kids directly to programs and services w/o justice system contact.
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Jenny Lutz, CCLP: Detention should not be used to: *treat youth, “save youth,” provide services *deliver services that are not available in the community *detain low/medium risk youth *detain youth charged with minor/non-violent charges *detain on technical violations
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Harms and Risks of Detention *Disrupts connections to family, school, and communities *Exacerbates mental illness and risk of self-harm *Increases likelihood of delinquent behavior *Slows the natural aging out process of delinquency
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Jason Szanyi, CCLP: there are several areas where current probation and community reintegration practices depart from best practices. Terms/conditions of probation are not focused on skill-building & positive goals.
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@CrimeVictimsOrg/@JusticePolicy: “Research shows that length of stay has a negligible impact on rearrest rates after 3 to 6 months. Providing the wrong dosage of supervision can impact a youth’s future involvement in violence.”Show this thread -
“Restorative justice practices allow youth to remain in the community and have better recidivism outcomes than the use of confinement, hold youth accountable for their actions, and achieve more victim satisfaction than other justice system processes.”
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Long sentences don't make a positive difference. Expected rate of rearrest does not go down by holding kids for longer periods, and can even go up.
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"There is widespread consensus that youth must ultimately have the skills to be successful within the communities to which they will return – skills that are difficult to build in a large secure facility that is far from many youth’s homes and families."
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Create a presumption of community-based responses for most youth, limiting the use of commitment and out-of-home placement. Develop placements that could better address the needs of the small number of youth requiring an out-of-home placement.
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Eliminate mandatory length of stay requirements and create length of stay guidelines for youth in placement that are aligned with research, best practices, and considerations of victims. Create a process for judicial review of commitments and out-of-home placements.
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Train judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other juvenile justice personnel on adolescent development, research on effective interventions with youth, and the harms associated with out-of-home placement
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Reassign responsibility for youth justice to a new agency or different child-serving agency
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Do NOT co-locate youth and women at LC. This would limit youth access to programming recreation, etc. Other states don’t do this. (**This is significant because Maine is currently considering moving a number of women prisoners to LC.**)
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CCLP: “All of this *can and should* be done while Maine invests in creating community-based continuums of care and implements other recommendations.”
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