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Juvenile Justice
“A massive conspiracy had corrupted the juvenile system of one Pennsylvania County”. Two judges, who are to use their power for good were using it to make money. They were working together to send teen offenders to prisons, even for their first minor offenses. These judges were making money from a private jail owners for every teen sent to prison.
Tags: Mark Ciavarella; courtroom; court; legal system; Michael Conahan; detention center; law enforcement
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"Let out early..."
To make room for new residents, the Arkansas Youth Services Division released 11 offenders from a juvenile detention center before their sentence was complete. Nine of those 11 were discharged despite objections from detention center workers. Only a short time later, one of the boys was arrested and charged with "capital murder, theft of property and fleeing."
Tags: Youth Services; Jacobia Twiggs; Arkansas Juvenile Assessment and Treatment Center; Antonio Terry; Human Services Division of Youth Services
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Governor Quinn Keeping Juvenile Prisons in the Dark
The report details governor Quinn's refusal to block information concerning conditions inside juvenile detention centers. The system cycles the same offenders in and out, and the report demonstrates why information on life inside these prisons could be beneficial to voters and taxpayers.
Tags: juvenile; prisons; detention centers; governor; cycle; offenders; information; prison life; Quinn;
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"Judgment Day"
Two judges accepted $2.67 million in payoffs for sending juveniles to "two for-profit" detention centers. In this investigation, the reporter uncovers the identities of the lawyer and contractor who supplied the payments, and revealed the mob connections of one of the judges.
Tags: Pennsylvania Child Care LLC; William D'Elia; Michael Conahan; Mark Ciavarella; juvenile center; Robert Mericle; Robert J. Powell
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I Was Pushed To Rig Hiring
The Chicago Sun-Times got a Cook County highway supervisor to admit for publication that he participated in rigged hiring schemes, under pressure from the patronage chief for the County Board president. The supervisor, Eric Petraitis, had the documents to back up his statements. The day after the story ran, the patronage chief was suspended. One month later, the FBI raided several Cook County departments, looking for additional evidence. Reporters Steve Patterson, Natasha Korecki, Rummana Hussain and Fran Spielman contributed to follow-up stories.
Tags: clout-hiring; FBI; FOI exemptions; Gerald Nichols; John Stroger; patronage; nepotism; whistleblower; William Krystinak; Bobbie Steele; Juvenile Detention Center; Michael Shakman
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Behind Locked Doors
Glenda Taylor and the Kerrville Daily Times take a look at the Kerr County Juvenile Detention Center after former employees and community members witness staff members abusing juvenile residents at the facility. Complaints were made, but ignored. Other complaints centered around the low pay of juvenile detention officers, and complaints of use of restraints violating state standards.
Tags: Juvenile Detention Center; juvenile detention officers; juvenile detention center abuse; Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
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Youth at Risk
The Great Falls Tribune's four-month, 13-part series of stories examines "the increasing number of teenagers with emotional or mental disorders, the reasons for their illnesses, and ways to make life less troubling for our teens."
Tags: teenagers; mental disorders; mental health care; troubled teens; Ritalin; hyperactivity; family dysfunction; Great Falls Juvenile Detention Center; child abuse
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It's A Crime: How Mentally Ill Teens Are Trapped in Lockups
A Post-Gazette four-part investigative series documents "how teens with serious mental illnesses are being warehoused in juvenile detention and corrections facilities because states have closed their adolescent mental hospital units and no one else will take them." The reporter finds that the system is "more punitive than therapeutic," and that "shoddy record keeping, room confinement for minor rules infractions, and lengthy incarcerations all place at-risk teens in greater danger of seriously hurting or killing themselves." The findings are supported by a survey of directors of detention centers across the country. The 172 responses received by the newspaper have confirmed that mentally ill teens face severe problems in juvenile lockups.
Tags: teenagers; children; juvenile detention; adolescents; suicide; sexual assault victims; abuse; psychiatric disorders; crime; youth; group homes
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The Devil's Chair
The Progressive "investigated the restraint chair, a popular restraining device used in jails and prisons" and "revealed that at least eleven people have died since 1984 after being placed in restraint chairs..." The story "revealed widespread abuse - including torture - of prisoners in the chairs." Some of the major findings included the use of chair "for punishment of nonthreatening behavior" and cases when "prisoners have been interrogated" or "required to testify while in restraint chairs." The reporter also found that "jails, state and federal prisons, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Marshals Service, state mental hospitals, juvenile detention centers are all equipped with the chair."
Tags: diskette; FOIA; Amnesty International; prisons; torture
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"Juvenile Justice: Pain and Promise"
This reprint of a special report continues an award-winning 1998 investigation into Arkansas' juvenile justice system, which documented the "physical, sexual and emotional abuse of delinquent children locked up in state facilities." Two years later, a follow-up inquiry reveals how problems persist despite legislation and reform inspired in part by the original report.
Tags: crime; drugs; sex offense; probation; detention centers; youth; rehabilitation