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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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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