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Criminal

Feb. 9, 2016

Department of Juvenile Justice: Empower or end?

A hearing scheduled for Feb. 25 will tackle the question of whether the Department of Juvenile Justice will be released from a 2004 consent decree that demanded a long list of system-wide reforms to correct a troubling list of violations and abuses that included rampant and "staggering" levels of excessive force and inhumane conditions for wards.

By L.J. Williamson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A hearing scheduled for Feb. 25 will tackle the question of whether the Department of Juvenile Justice will be released from a 2004 consent decree that demanded a long list of system-wide reforms to correct a troubling list of violations and abuses that included rampant and "staggering" levels of excessive force and inhumane conditions for wards.

The DJJ is reported to have made meaningful ...

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