Mental health exams for Juvenile Justice workers
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debmac
I agree that training and the culture of the facility are perhaps our best tools. In addition, I would say adequate background checks should be conducted. I believe that quite often this is the part that is lacking for smaller agencies who don’t have the resources available to conduct a thorough investigation on applicants...
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The Road to and from - Juvenile Life without Parole
The United States holds many unique or leading positions in the realm of criminal justice—not all of them desirable. Among them, the U.S. is the only country that “routinely,” in the words of the online magazine The Intercept, sentences juveniles to life without parole. That practice is rapidly disappearing, and here we will look at the background of the practice and recent trends at the state and federal levels... read full story
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