TO: ALL OF CCD

FROM: National Disability Rights Network

DATE: June 11, 2015

Re: New Report on Youth with Disabilities and the Juvenile Justice System 

 

Title: Orphanages, Training Schools, Reform Schools and Now This? 

 

Please find attached is a new report from National Disability Rights Network!  

Link to report:  http://www.ndrn.org/images/Documents/Issues/Juvenile_Justice/NDRN_-_Juvenile_Justice_Report.pdf

 

 

Orphanages, Training Schools, Reform Schools and Now This?

Recommendations to Prevent the Disproportionate Placement and Inadequate Treatment of Children with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System

Issues addressed in this report include:  diversion of children and youth with disabilities from the juvenile justice system (particularly stemming the “School to Prison Pipeline”), humane conditions while incarcerated (such as accommodation and communication needs, medical care, mental health treatment, and the prevention of abuse and neglect) and re-entry services like education and treatment to ensure the child or youth’s success upon release from the facility.

 

Please send this out to your networks!

 

Please contact Diane Smith Howard with any questions – xxxxxx@ndrn.org

 

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Thank you,

Dara Baldwin