An attorney is fighting to get the boy out of the Long Creek Youth Development Center, but the state argues that he can be detained while officials search for the right placement for his mental health needs.
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Our View: Juvenile justice bill would keep kids out of prison
Mental health and drug disorders don’t get better behind bars. Maine judges should treat incarceration as a last resort.
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Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Juvenile justice group convenes with mission of reform
Chief Justice Leigh Saufley tells the task force that the work of creating alternatives to incarcerating youths at the Long Creek Youth Development Center is unfinished business begun a decade ago.
Posted inLocal & State, News
State agrees to hand over records of suicide attempts at Long Creek
Disability Rights Maine sued last year to get the records during an investigation into the state’s only juvenile detention facility, where 5 suicide attempts were reported in a 3-month span.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News, Politics
Corrections commissioner to convene group to consider fate of Long Creek
Randall Liberty says the group will examine Maine’s juvenile justice system and revisit ending the incarceration of minors at the Long Creek Youth Development Center.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Advocacy group sues state for records of youths’ suicide attempts at Long Creek
Disability Rights Maine says it received reports of 5 attempted suicides between March and July at the juvenile detention center in South Portland and has been seeking records from the state, with little success.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: State relies too heavily on incarceration for dealing with young offenders
Approaches that focus on mentoring while keeping juveniles safely at home have a far better track record.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
State denies Long Creek lawsuit’s claim that guards beat boy, broke his teeth
A lawsuit alleges that after being beaten and losing teeth, the 11-year-old boy received ‘indifferent’ medical care and was not taken to a dentist for 6 days.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Skowhegan teen challenges state’s jailing of youths at Long Creek detention center in lawsuit
Maine’s highest court gets a case that questions a basic premise of law and the validity of a teenager’s 18-month commitment, but the state says it ran out of options for rehabilitation.
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Lawsuit says 11-year-old boy held at Long Creek was injured by staff, deprived of medical care
Allegations that the staff failed to give the boy his medication and broke his teeth in a scuffle add to scrutiny of the juvenile detention center.