Found 10 matches.
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Shut Down Sequel: Progress Report
Tags: Alabama | California | Michigan | Minnesota | Ohio | Oregon | Utah | Deinstitutionalization | Institutional Conditions | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Privatization | Advocacy | NJJN Publications
Shut Down Sequel Progress Report, outlining progress made in our efforts to shut down Sequel facilities and advocate for systemic reforms. NJJN repeats its call for states to end ties with Sequel, but compel states to go further in implementing protections for kids by: 1) ending the use of for-profit facilities for youth, 2) banning the use of restraint, and 3) bringing youth home, prioritizing community-based care over harmful congregate care settings.
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Confining Youth for Profit | Policy Platform | PDF
Tags: National | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Institutional Conditions | Privatization | NJJN Publications
NJJN recommends ending the use of for-profit private youth confinement facilities because they encourage the incarceration of youth and the elimination of services youth need to succeed. Also, making money on keeping youth in bondage is morally wrong.
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Protecting Youth Confined for Profit - Policy Safeguards | PDF
Tags: National | Detention | Institutional Conditions | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Privatization | NJJN Publications
NJJN opposes the use of for-profit private youth confinement facilities because they encourage the incarceration of youth and the elimination of services youth need to succeed; and they are morally wrong. Where they are still used, these policy safeguards help protect youth, taxpayers, and public safety.
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Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and Low-Crime Taxes Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations
Tags: National | Privatization | Reports | Research
Report discusses how prison bed occupancy guarantees in private prison contracts undermine criminal justice policy and democratic, accountable government.
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Florida Continues to Eliminate Prison Beds and Increase Community-Based Alternatives, H.B. 5001/Act No. 2012-118
Tags: Florida | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Privatization | Legislation
The final FY 2012-13 Florida budget passed by the legislature and signed by the governor eliminated over 300 juvenile beds and reinvested over $6 million in community-based alternatives. The state continued its move toward privatization, however; the budget included proviso language assuring 100 percent privatization of Florida’s juvenile prison system (excluding detention) by the end of the fiscal year. H.B. 5001/Act No. 2012-118, signed into law April 17, 2012; effective July 1, 2012.
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Independent Monitoring Systems for Juvenile Facilities, Center for Children's Law and Policy
Tags: Privatization | Reports
Fact sheet outlining best practices common to effective independent monitoring systems for juvenile facilities and providing examples of systems currently serving youth in facilities.
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Jail a Child, Get a Job: America Hates Kids Part I, Chris Norwood, The Huffington Post
Tags: Privatization | Media
Opinion editorial on the increasing rates of youth criminalization.
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Report on Private Youth Prison, Office of the Independent Ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission
Tags: Texas | Institutional Conditions | Privatization | Reports
Report of observations from site visit to a private youth facility in Texas. Overall report consensus is that the youth at this private facility did not have the proper programming or resources.
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Florida Ends Juvenile Boot Camps, Florida, H.B. 5019
Tags: Florida | Institutional Conditions | Privatization | Legislation
The Florida legislature included provisions within the state budget to close all four juvenile boot camps by July 2007.
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The At-Risk-Youth Industry, Jennifer Washburn, The Atlantic Monthly
Tags: Privatization | Media
Article examining the pitfalls of privatizing services for at-risk youth.