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| Federal Grant Funding for State Juvenile Programs Cut |
| By jjie.org - Gary Gately |
| Published: 01/21/2014 |
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Juvenile offenders and their parents in California signed contracts agreeing to school attendance, curfews, drug testing and counseling – and the agreements prevented the youths from being incarcerated. New York state funded programs in Syracuse and Utica to divert from arrest youths who had committed non-serious illegal acts at school. Georgia made funds available to 159 county juvenile courts to find community-based services as alternatives to detention. The efforts in the three states were funded in part by the federal Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) program, which gives states resources to improve juvenile justice systems. But the JABG funding has been eliminated in a fiscal year 2014 spending bill released this week by House and Senate negotiators. Marie Williams, executive director of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, lamented that the funding has been eliminated. Read More. |
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