The director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's* Juvenile Justice Strategy Group sounded an alarm Monday about a slowing of progress and an increase in the length of time youth are being incarcerated in some of the 300 sites of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
Nate Balis spoke at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Foundation-sponsored Initiative (JDAI), with some 900 registrants attending the three-day event. The JDAI has been instrumental in cutting the juvenile detention rate by 40 percent over the last two decades.
He noted in his prepared speech that much of the rapid growth in reducing youth incarceration happened between 2002 and 2012, but now progress is slowing. “I see this slowdown as a sign of JDAI reaching maturity, solidifying its transition from a renegade, against-the-grain reform idea to the standard for detention practice nationwide,” he said.
[For more of this story, written by Leonard Witt, go to http://jjie.org/2017/04/18/hea...alarm-for-reformers/]
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