In a recent episode of “Returning Citizens: Life Beyond Incarceration” featuring YSRP, host Paul Butler…
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Lauren Fine, codirector of the nonprofit Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project, pointed to a 2010 state law that says that, if a judge and prosecutor agree, direct-file youths who are seeking transfer to juvenile court may be held in juvenile facilities. Fine said juvenile-justice facilities have more training and resources to deal with the needs and challenges of young people — and they are subject to regulations limiting confinement. “Our understanding is at the [city’s juvenile detention center], solitary is not being used on children,” Fine said. “It is being used frequently on children in the adult jail, where they are being held pretrial — and prior to a determination of whether they even belong in the adult system.”Read the article here.