Our federal government quietly changed the mission of the executive agency responsible for juvenile justice policy, abandoning the vision that all our children should be “healthy and educated.” The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) recently amended its website quietly, with this and other disturbing changes. This public-facing information is the gateway to federal policies on our juvenile justice system. These changes broadcast its shift in direction from the reforms that have cut the juvenile crime rate by 58% by OJJDP’s own statistics back to the failed “get tough” policies that brought us mass incarceration.
Federal Government abandons mission to ensure children are “educated and healthy”
Our federal government quietly changed the mission of the executive agency responsible for juvenile justice policy, abandoning the vision…
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