Post by Logan on Mar 18, 2016 15:41:23 GMT -6
Maryland lawmakers demand limits on strip-searching and shackling juvenile detainees
State lawmakers on Wednesday called the routine shackling and strip-searching of youths in the state's juvenile justice facilities "simply unacceptable" and demanded an "immediate" end to the practices.
Nearly three dozen members of the House of Delegates, all Democrats, made the demand in a letter to Department of Juvenile Services Secretary Sam Abed.
Instead of helping youths under 18 toward productive adulthood, they wrote, the department "has a policy of (re-)traumatizing them through malicious practices."
"The practice of automatically shackling children and young adults is contrary to due process and the very purpose of the juvenile justice system," they wrote.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-strip-shackle-reaction-20160316-story.html
State lawmakers on Wednesday called the routine shackling and strip-searching of youths in the state's juvenile justice facilities "simply unacceptable" and demanded an "immediate" end to the practices.
Nearly three dozen members of the House of Delegates, all Democrats, made the demand in a letter to Department of Juvenile Services Secretary Sam Abed.
Instead of helping youths under 18 toward productive adulthood, they wrote, the department "has a policy of (re-)traumatizing them through malicious practices."
"The practice of automatically shackling children and young adults is contrary to due process and the very purpose of the juvenile justice system," they wrote.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-strip-shackle-reaction-20160316-story.html