NCJ Number
152893
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 56 Issue: 7 Dated: (December 1994) Pages: 104,106
Date Published
1994
Length
2 pages
Annotation
This article outlines the recommendations of the Juvenile Corrections Leadership Forum pertinent to improving short-term and long-term detention practices and conditions of confinement for juveniles.
Abstract
The Juvenile Corrections Leadership Forum, which was established in 1989, is composed of 14 of the leading juvenile corrections administrators in the United States. The forum meets three times a year to analyze and develop policies that these leaders can then use in their own jurisdictions. At a meeting in the fall of 1993, the forum analyzed the "Conditions of Confinement" report and agreed on a number of the recommendations made in the report. One of these recommendations is that the national professional organizations interested in juvenile confinement should join together to work toward improving confinement conditions. Jurisdictions should also develop policies to regulate the use and duration of juvenile confinement and guide the development of future options for confinement and nonconfinement placement. The forum also developed its own recommendations pertinent to juvenile confinement. It recommended that the U.S. Congress legislate the constitutional due process rights of confined juveniles so they are at least equal with the rights afforded adults in confinement. Further, the forum recommended that the overrepresentation of minorities in the juvenile justice system should be addressed as a symptom of a social condition that threatens the future of the United States.