Let the kids speak: AB 802 brings accountability to juvenile halls

Let the kids speak: AB 802 brings accountability to juvenile halls

In some of California’s juvenile halls, food hasn’t just been scarce – it’s been weaponized as a form of child abuse. For years in Los Angeles County’s facilities, guards used the lack of quality meals to manipulate the children in their custody, offering fast food as a reward for violence. Guards would refer to a child they wanted beaten by telling other kids, “there’s a meal on his head,” according to a story in the Los Angeles Times. “It’s ba…

Philadelphia's Prolonged Youth-Detention Problem: A Survey of Potential Legal Challenges - Penn Law Review

Introduction Philadelphia’s youth detention facilities have been inadequate for decades. Ideally, these facilities house youth for short periods as their cases are adjudicated. Youth should then be released or transferred to state-run or private placements overseen by the state for rehabilitative treatment. But over the last few years, lengthier court processes and fewer treatment facilities resulted in youth remaining in the Philadelphia Juveni…