Reposted by Nicole Dungca
Children committed to D.C.’s juvenile justice agency should be transferred from detention to a rehabilitation program within 30 days, the agency director says.
Yet today, young people are languishing for months at the detention center, where dangerous incidents have nearly quadrupled since 2021.
washingtonpost.com
D.C. teens in need of rehabilitation wait months in a detention center
The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services struggles to provide adequate services to many teens, leaving them to languish in a violent detention center.
