Colorado lawmakers call for more transparency after Gazette report on youth...
Colorado lawmakers are calling for greater transparency at the Division of Youth Corrections after a Gazette...
View ArticleNebraska routinely holds children in solitary confinement, report finds
A civil rights report has found that young offenders in detention facilities can be put in isolation for days, weeks or months for ‘relatively minor infractions’...
View ArticleAnnie E. Casey Foundation CEO Calls for States to Close 'Youth Prisons' As...
BALTIMORE, June 24, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a TEDx talk recorded today, the president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation challenged states across the country to close all youth...
View ArticleColorado Springs youth center allegedly 'out of control'
Sonja Goldinak describes the job she left a year ago as a "war zone.""It's been totally out of control. If we could run out of the room or...
View ArticleSolitary confinement is cruel and all too usual. Why is it only getting worse?
The breathlessness was overwhelming. Standing in that small, dark cell, surrounded by nothing but three concrete walls, a dank toilet, a small sink, a thin mattress, a concrete slab and a perforated...
View ArticleBooker Introduces Legislation Banning Juvenile Solitary Confinement (Cory A...
(Source: Cory A Booker) August 5, 2015 Each day, in jails and prisons across America, youth under the age of 18 are held in solitary confinement often for weeks or months at a time Solitary confinement...
View ArticleRaising questions about being deceived, Colorado lawmakers push back
Gov. John Hickenlooper's administration has added more than 50 new guards at youth prisons in response to a recent jailbreak and rash of assaults behind bars, but state lawmakers are questioning how...
View ArticleJustice Department terminates consent decree with Ohio Department of Youth...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio) The United States announced today that it has joined with the state of Ohio in seeking the termination of a consent decree...
View ArticleJustice Department Agrees to Termination of Consent Decree Concerning...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio) WASHINGTON - The United States announced today that it has joined with the state of Ohio in seeking the termination of a...
View ArticleAdvocates seek to end solitary confinement options for young offenders
Daivion Davis, 21, was convicted of second-degree attempted murder and voluntary manslaughter in 2009 after he opened fire in a gang shooting that killed a 16-year-old honors student attending the...
View ArticleKids don't belong in adult jails (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) When I first visited the Baltimore City Detention Center in 1999, I found an archaic, decaying facility that held people in grim cells with no direct natural light....
View ArticleOhio, feds settle over youth prison seclusion
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio will reduce the seclusion of boys with mental health issues in its youth prisons and work to improve services for those teens, under a settlement reached with the federal...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: A progressive policy on solitary
Michele Miller, warden of Belmont Correctional Institution in St. Clairsville, Ohio, discusses efforts to ease the harsh nature of solitary confinement in November. Miller says a change in philosophy...
View ArticleYouth lockups: Trouble behind bars
In an exclusive story Sunday, The Gazette will show what is occurring behind locked doors at the state's 10 juvenile...
View ArticleAttorney General Holder Criticizes Excessive Use of Solitary Confinement for...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York) Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Attorney General Holder...
View ArticleAttorney General Holder Criticizes Excessive Use of Solitary Confinement for...
(Source: Office of the Attorney General) Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Attorney General Holder Criticizes Excessive Use of Solitary...
View ArticleIn 10 States, Children Can Be Punished With Indefinite Solitary Confinement
WASHINGTON -- Ten states allow children in juvenile detention centers to be punished with solitary confinement indefinitely, according to a new released by the pro bono program at the law firm...
View ArticleAttorney General Holder Criticizes Excessive Use of Solitary Confinement for...
(Source: US Department of Justice) Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Attorney General Holder Criticizes Excessive Use of Solitary Confinement...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers agree to limits on juvenile solitary
Bill Tracker Get details on Colorado state legislation. New legislation › More new legislation › The week in Colorado legislature › Find your local...
View ArticleLooking to end time in ‘the box' for youthful offenders
Daivion Davis, 21, was convicted of second-degree attempted murder and voluntary manslaughter in 2009 after he opened fire in a gang shooting that killed a 16-year-old honors student attending the...
View ArticleStates Addressing Solitary Confinement for Juveniles (NCSL - National...
(Source: NCSL - National Conference of State Legislatures) By Anne S. Teigen Every year in the United States, thousands of juveniles are placed in solitary confinement-also known as confinement,...
View ArticleChanges underway at Spring Creek Youth Services Center
After denying in May that security problems existed at Spring Creek Youth Services Center, officials at the Colorado Department of Human Services now are acknowledging troubles at the detention...
View ArticleColorado Springs Rep.'s bill aimed at youth corrections facilities
DENVER - A bill to open for public scrutiny reports of incidents like rapes and assaults at the state's...
View ArticleCalifornia might become latest state to end solitary lockup for juvenile...
LOS ANGELES — Daivion Davis, 21, was convicted of second-degree attempted murder and voluntary manslaughter in 2009 after he opened fire in a gang shooting that killed a 16-year-old honors student...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers grill youth prison officials after jailbreak, assaults
In this Denver Post file photo, Reggie Bicha (left), Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Human Services, addresses the Legislative Audit Committee in November 2014. (Helen H. Richardson,...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers question request for more staff at state-run juvenile...
Colorado lawmakers responsible for the state budget were skeptical Friday of a request from the Division of Youth...
View ArticleJuvenile solitary confinement bill passes, partly inspired by Gazette...
DENVER - Partially inspired by The Gazette's investigation into the treatment of juveniles in state-run facilities, a bill headed to the governor's desk would strictly limit when and for how long...
View ArticleJuvenile solitary confinement bill, partly inspired by Gazette reporting,...
DENVER - Partially inspired by The Gazette's investigation into the treatment of juveniles in state-run facilities, a bill headed to the governor's desk would strictly limit when and for how long...
View ArticleColorado Springs Rep.'s bill would require transparency from youth...
DENVER - A bill to open for public scrutiny reports of incidents like rapes and assaults at the state's...
View ArticleHB 1328 goes too far on juvenile detention rules
Colorado House Bill 1328 would impose detailed standards on how the state s Division of Youth Corrections handles emergency seclusion of inmates. (Thinkstock) Since October of last year, the state's...
View ArticleColorado Springs legislator's bill could limit youth confinement
A bill that strictly limits putting juveniles in solitary confinement was introduced Tuesday by lawmakers concerned that the practice is harmful to Colorado's detained and committed youth. The Division...
View ArticleWATCH: Video shows August rioting at Colorado Springs youth services center
Youth offenders who have been court-ordered to serve time in a locked juvenile facility will no longer be housed at...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Strict limits on solitary for juveniles
Last week, President Obama announced a series of reforms regarding the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons, including restrictions on the use of solitary confinement for juvenile offenders...
View ArticleSpring Creek workers ask for stun guns, pepper spray to counter violence
Changes are being made at state-run juvenile detention centers across Colorado to improve the system, according to...
View ArticleUSA: federal supermax prison in Colorado is 'inhuman' and in breach of...
(Source: Amnesty International United Kingdom Section) Prisoners held for average of eight years in solitary cells 'The use of such forms of solitary confinement goes beyond legitimate correctional...
View ArticleMichigan Lawmakers To Introduce 21 Bills Targeting Kids in Adult Corrections
WASHINGTON -- Michigan lawmakers are expected to introduce 21 bills this week that address prison treatment and criminal justice practices for kids in the adult corrections system. Some measures would...
View ArticleUnanswered questions kill funding request for Colorado youth corrections...
A request for a $1.2 million supplemental appropriation to add security staff at the state's trouble youth corrections...
View ArticleSolitary Confinement Is What Destroyed My Son, Grieving Mom Says
i A solitary confinement cell at New York City's Rikers Island jail. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption toggle caption Bebeto Matthews/AP A solitary confinement cell at New York City's Rikers Island jail....
View ArticleThere are good reasons to keep youth out of solitary confinement: Guest...
Holding youth in solitary confinement is torture. It destroys the lives of children and demonstrates a fundamental failure on our part to provide youth with the tools for a future of possibility,...
View ArticleAttorney General Holder criticizes solitary confinement for juveniles
WASHINGTON_Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. spoke out Wednesday against what he described as the unnecessary use of solitary confinement for imprisoned juveniles who suffer from mental illness....
View ArticleSpring Creek youth center workers ask for stun guns, pepper spray
Employees at state-run juvenile detention centers across Colorado say changes being made to improve the system aren’t enough. Adjustments in documenting seclusion, timeouts for juveniles, and...
View ArticleAustralia's juvenile detention centres are more secretive than Guantánamo Bay
Policies on solitary confinement and other documents from inside the Northern Territory facility are key to unlocking just what happened inside Don Dale...
View ArticleYouth Corrections boss leaves after alleged riot at Spring Creek facility
Charles "Chuck" Parkins is no longer director of the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections, and his abrupt departure...
View ArticleYouth Corrections chief leaves after alleged riot at Spring Creek facility
Charles "Chuck" Parkins is no longer director of the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections, and his abrupt departure...
View ArticleColorado Springs youth services center workers ask for stun guns, pepper...
Changes are being made at state-run juvenile detention centers across Colorado to improve the system, according to...
View ArticleTwo members of Spring Creek Youth Services Center staff speak out about...
Brutal stories, one after the other, spilled out of two employees from Spring Creek Youth Services Center last week, when they met at a restaurant with reporters from The Gazette and a state senator to...
View ArticleColorado Youth Corrections boss leaves after allegations of riots, assaults...
Charles “Chuck” Parkins is no longer director of the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections, and his abrupt departure comes as a whistleblower inside Spring Creek Youth Services Center in Colorado...
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