youth corrections
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State vows again to reform Colorado’s youth corrections system
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State officials on Thursday again promised to implement meaningful changes in Colorado’s youth corrections system, after years of surging violence, drug contraband seizures and controversies over staff use of isolation cells and restraint devices. The state will abandon a model based on large groups of incarcerated youths and punitive compliance measures, they pledged, in favor…
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Balis: Fixing youth corrections in Colorado starts by reducing its use
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Disturbing conditions in Colorado’s youth corrections facilities were documented in the report Bound and Broken by the Child Safety Coalition. While the allegations and disagreements between the report’s authors and the state’s Department of Youth Corrections (DYC) might seem unbridgeable, there is a path forward for Colorado that starts with rethinking its approach to troubled…
