Mark Soler: There is clear frustration and pain among youth and families in the juvenile justice system as well as those who work within it. We need to put more trust in our communities to help solve these problems.
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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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