Like many government programs that might fairly be described as compassionate, Community Treatment Alternatives is having a fiscally tough time in this conservative age. And while we can build a new "Public Safety" facility and a Taj Mahal for the legal professionals, the CTA program can't even tell you where it will be located a year from now. Read the story and see if you don't agree with me that that's a crime. And like it or not, we're all guilty.
Although she had no prior criminal record, 14-year-old Shaquanda Cotton was sentenced in 2006 to up to seven years in correctional detention for shoving a teacher's aide in the small town of Paris in East Texas. Another 14-year-old girl was sentenced by the same judge to probation after she was convicted of the serious Crime of arson. Shaquanda is Black and the other girl is White. Shaquanda was imprisoned at the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex in Brownwood, Texas, under an indeterminate sentence that could have lasted until her 21st birthday. Fortunately she was released in March 2007, having spent a year behind bars, after a wave of protests from civil rights groups prompted officials to intervene. Shaquanda's case is just one of many reflecting the racial inequity in ...
... to be handled by families, churches and community organizations. With overflowing dockets, many Blac... substance abuse prevention and treatment programs exist. Poor youths have a hard time recei...These include alternatives to incarceration such as restitution, community se...
... in the Home: Scope, Limits, and Alternatives C. The Minor's Capacity and Authority To Consent C...'s ability to help the child complete treatment. (120) Ultimately, the Court upheld the Georgia st... are not full members of the moral community. (183) Given the concerns identified by Melton, pr...
Fortunately she was released in March 2007, having spent a year behind bars, after a wave of protests from civil rights groups prompted officials to intervene. [Shaquanda]'s case is just one of many reflecting the racial inequity in America's juvenile justice system, which funnels low-income children of color into the Cradle to Prison Pipeline and unnecessary detention. We can do better. Incarceration shouldn't be our society's first or primary response to a minority youth in trouble. Judges need to look for opportunities to offer poor young and minority defendants the same second chances most privileged youths can count on. These include alternatives to incarceration such as restitution, community service, electronic monitoring, drug rehabilitation treatment, or placement in a "staff s...
The National Institutes of Health Council of Councils has established a working group to provide recommendations to the Council on: (1) Implementing the guiding principles and criteria contained within the Institute of Medicine report, ``Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity'', and (2) the size and placement of the research active and inactive populations of NIH- owned or -supported chimpanzees. See http://dpcpsi.nih.gov/council/ working--group.aspx for the working group's charge and roster. The NIH is seeking public input to inform the working group's deliberations. Background: The use of animals in research has enabled scientists to identify new ways to treat illness, extend life, and improve health and well-being. Chimpanzees are our closest relat...
... developed by the biomedical community have provided alternatives to the use of chimpanze... affect the development, prevention, or treatment of disease. The committee was unable to reach cons...
Two months later his mother called," says [Dave Delap]. "He stopped taking his meds and was psychotic. Six months later he came back to Madison and asked to be readmitted to us. He was, but unfortunately the medications didn't work as well. It's known as the 'kindling effect' - the more acute episodes you have, the more serious the illness, the harder it is to treat. Staff members discuss clients in alphabetical order. Everyone seems to know all the clients. One has asked for an emergency visit because his Social Security was cut. He didn't want his caseworker to come to his home, saying he burned his french fries, "which I think is a code word, because the place smelled like incense," says the staff member. "But he is doing so well, working." Another staff member took a client shoppi...
... to a Dane County program called Community Treatment Alternatives. Leslie, who asked that her...
Defendant's guilty plea was entered knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily. The trial court fully complied with Crim.R. 11. The trial court, who imposed a six-year prison term, did not have the authority to permanently bar the defendant from having any contact with the victim upon the defendant's release from prison. That portion of the sentence was vacated and the imposition of six years was affirmed.
...treatment for drug or alcohol dependent offenders. According to Holly, he entered his p...
INDIANAPOLIS - The Evansville Psychiatric Children's Center is uniquely positioned as the only state-run institution in Southwestern Indiana that provides intensive, full-time care for children who suffer from serious mental illness. But the children's center also has become the state-run institution with the highest per-patient cost per day and the lowest occupancy rate.
... placed in a privately run residential treatment facility - some more than once. Eleven had a histo... when the center is compared with community-based alternatives to residential treatment facili...
West Virginias jails and prisons are so full that some inmates are sleeping on the floor, and the states inmate population is expected to grow substantially through the end of the decade. Officials dont believe building more prisons will solve the problem. Instead, they want a new approach to corrections and rehabilitation. Were at a crisis, were at a critical stage. We cant understate that, said state Military Affairs and Public Safety Secretary Joe Thornton. We have no vacancy. And that means some inmates at the states 10 regional jails are sleeping on the floor. There are still a handful of inmates that dont have a bunk, Deputy Secretary Joe DeLong said. DeLong said an additional 400 bunks have been ordered and theyll be placed where theres room. After those 400 bunks are installed, ...
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