Juvenile Justice Information Exchange:
The Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform is preparing to train this fall’s inaugural class of juvenile justice executives and rank-and-file detention facility staffers in protocols aimed at limiting the use of solitary confinement of youth.
That first class of trainees for the “Ending Isolation in Youth Facilities” certificate program also will include representatives of nonprofit organizations working with youth who have been arrested, convicted, paroled or enrolled in community-based diversion programs.
With Arnold Ventures, the Center for Children’s Law and Policy and Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators, the Georgetown center now is selecting what likely will be five teams from juvenile justice agencies from across that country for that inaugural class of trainees, said Michael Umpierre, the center’s director. A second class is slated to be selected in summer 2022, he said. Continue reading >>>
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