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Search results for "Department of Juvenile Justice" ...
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Drugging Delinquents
The investigation found that Florida was restraining jailed children with heavy doses of potent anti-psychotic drugs, medications that can turn troublemakers into "zombies" and cause serious health problems in kids.
Tags: juvenile; prisons; jailed children; Department of Juvenile Justice
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Watchdog website and its web pages
The Oklahoman/NewsOK.com started this project in 2008 with the Right to Know page, a collection of databases developed internally to go along with stories and links to relevant public information. That site became part of the Watchdog page in 2009. In 2010, the staff continued to evolve the Watchdog page with "mini-sites" of investigative topics, such as a political corruption case at the Oklahoma Legislature; the staff's FOI fight over the birth dates of public employees; and allegations of bid-rigging with a married lawmaker and lobbyist for a private company seeking a state juvenile justice contract. Other "mini-sites" under Watchdog include ongoing coverage of the state Department of Human Services and the federal stimulus package.
Tags: continuous coverage; online; watchdog; bid-rigging; Department of Human Services; federal stimulus; FOI; Right to Know
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A Horrible Answer
Fire years into massive reforms, Washington, D.C.'s pledge to create a more compassionate juvenile justice system remains unfulfilled, and youth in the custody of the city are killing and dying at epidemic proportions. This series looked comprehensively at the statistics and the stories behind a year's worth of deadly violence among juveniles in the custody of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), in most cases because they had a juvenile criminal record. Reporters found that during the year they studied, one in five homicides in the city involved a youth in the custody of the city as either a victim or a suspect.
Tags: Juvenile; Washington, D.C.; Crime; Violence; Youth; State; Homicide; Ward of City; Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services; DYRS
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For Their Own Good
This story exposes juveniles, who are to serve trial as adults, are being held in isolation for over 20 hours a day. This process can last months or years while these juveniles wait for trial. The jail provides "less than the required minimum amount of education and physical activity". This story also revealed that judges and county officials weren't aware of the treatment of these juveniles. Though, state juvenile justice advocates were aware of the process, they did nothing to stop it.
Tags: Harris county; juveniles; solitary confinement; adults; judges; Texas; youth; prisons; jail; justice department; kids
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Harsh Medicine
In New York ,Prison Health,Inc., was the health care provider for pre-trial detainees and troubled youths at Rikers Island and inside the city Juvenile Justice Department. It is also the largest company responsible for medical and mental health care in American jails. However, Prison Health was operating illegally in New York and also was responsible for multiple deaths due to its providing of inadequate medical or mental heath care.
Tags: health care; prisons; mental health care; medical health care; Prison Health,Inc.
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The death of Keisha
The author investigated the death of LaKeisha Brown in the custody of Alexander Youth Services Center. The girl's repeated requests for help over a period of days were brushed off by nurses at the juvenile lockup, and they were by the facility supervisors. The only medical attention she received the day of her death was some Advil and a puff of her inhaler. The medical examiner found that Keisha had died a slow death from blood clots in her lungs that had been there for a minimum of two days and up to two weeks.
Tags: juvenile facilities; Department of Justice; LaKeisha Brown; medical intervention; Youth Services; FOIA
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Juvenile Justice: A Secret World
This investigation looks into the juvenile justice system of Kentucky and secrecy laws intended to protect juvenile offenders and help them transition back into society. The series questions whether or not these secrecy laws are protecting the juvenile offenders or injuring the community by not revealing juvenile sex offenders and those convicted of violent acts. The investigation also analyzes whether funds spent on rehabilitating the youth has been worth it.
Tags: juvenile courts; minors; secrecy laws; rehabilitation; juvenile offenders; Department of Juvenile Justice; CAR
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Juvenile System Under Fire
This investigation found that the juvenille justice system in Wayne County, MI is wracked with "fraud, overpayments and cronyism." The county overpays contractors and even awarded millions of dollars in contracts to relatives of the county sheriff and Detroit mayor. The FBI is involved in monitoring the situation, and the investigation discusses its role in the system as well.
Tags: county government; Detroit; Wayne County; Department of Children and Family Services; DCFS; contracts; state government; FBI; informants; audits; nonprofits
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Juvenile Sex Predators
This investigation delved into the statistic that one out of four sex offenses against children are committed by children. Child sexual predators often go unpunished because of their minor status.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; FOIA; department of justice; sex crimes; sex offender; children; sexual assault; kid; teen; abuse; child services; juvenile; minor
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The Color of Justice
The Columbia Daily Tribune investigated arrest rates among juveniles in Columbia, MO, and found that black children were being arrested at much higher rates than white children, even though black children only made up about 18 percent of Columbia's juvenile population. They also found that the city of Columbia had not taken any kind of action to fix the racial imbalance in arrest rates.
Tags: FOIA; unfair arrest rates; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Columbia Police Department; racial profiling