ANNAPOLIS — For a youth on probation in Maryland, a minor fault could mean a trip back through the complex juvenile justice system, sometimes resulting in incarceration, and often causing major setbacks to the youth’s rehabilitation.
To keep children from being dragged back into court for non-serious issues, the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services is developing a tool that will help case managers make objective and appropriate decisions about the juveniles in their care, and also help combat racial bias in the system, said Eric Solomon, public information officer for the Department of Juvenile Services.
The department in October began training case managers, who are responsible for monitoring juveniles on probation, to use a system of “graduated responses” — a grid-based set of guidelines to help them decide step-by-step how to appropriately respond when juveniles violate the terms of their probation.
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Reform the system my ass. We have thugs running around our schools wearing ankle bracelets and threating students and teachers and nothing is being done. Only when they gang beat up an 83 year old man do they thrown back into jail. If it was done correctly, the 15 y/o wearing the ankle bracelet would not have been there to beat up the old man. Maybe we should send them to school with the children of these aholes from juvenile services instead of our kids.
ReplyDeleteThey need to be coddled and given a nice warm cup of tea before waterboarding them and kicking the living crap out of them. Stay in jail until you're 18, and get a second try.
ReplyDeleteGreat, now were going even EASIER on this teen thugs?
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