BALTIMORE —For more than a decade, Maryland state corrections officials have been dealing with a conflict over where to house juvenile offenders.
This has been a long-running debate over what to do with juveniles charged with serious, adult-like crimes when a federal order says you can't house them with adult suspects.
Twelve juveniles are currently held at the Baltimore City Jail, a facility built for adults, awaiting trial for serious crimes. Included are two teenagers charged as adults with first-degree murder in the killing more than a year ago of a woman in Highlandtown.
Two weeks ago, the state's Board of Public Works approved a $30 million project to house that type of juvenile offender and come into compliance with a long-standing order from the federal government to separate juveniles from adults.
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2 comments:
They had a facility on Fooks Rd but the wrong management. I would gladly run that facility if it was converted back. The proper way to start with you would need 3 separate housing areas.
One for the discipline detainees, 1 for the intake and lazy detainees and 1 for the best behaved ready to do their time and get back into society.
Strict guidelines for every day activities and consequences for disobedience.
Counselors that deal with them as needed and not be passive and sympathetic.
Also a building for education and career minded classes.
These are the basics.
People are tired of all this crap , it just doesn't work!
We give them play grounds , they sell drugs there.
We send them to school with free breakfast and lunch , they come out dumb as a brick
We provide them with free housing everyway , they sell drugs there.
We provide them with employment , they sell drugs there.
We will give them a facility for 30 million just to teach them what their next housing will be , Jail , jail , jail.
Of course we all know that the cops caused all of this , also the white population.
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