“It’s ironic for this to actually happen in the District’s city hall and for all these “juvenile justice experts” to lose control over these girls.” The Mayor and all the “juvenile justice experts” could not control the brawl and had to call police. The Mayor expects all the juvenile justice employees to “talk” the youth’s [...]
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Mayor Adrian Fenty fired the head of the city’s juvenile rehabilitation agency under mounting political pressure to make changes to a system that has seen five of its wards killed and nine others arrested on murder charges this year. Fenty announced Monday that Marc Schindler, interim director of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, would [...]
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The District needs to be more careful in placing violent youths back into the community to avoid situations where “some things fall through the cracks,” according to Attorney General Peter Nickles. Nickles, appearing on NewsChannel 8, said he has completed a review of the city’s juvenile justice system that he’ll present to Mayor Adrian Fenty [...]
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Washington Post By Colbert I. King. Saturday, June 26, 2010 Despite her quick smile, Nardyne Jefferies couldn’t mask the pain and anger written all over her face when we met at a Northeast eatery this week. Her 16-year-old daughter, Brishell, was one of the three youths killed in the March 30 drive-by shooting on South [...]
It was predicted by experts that DC & MD juvenile and residential would lose control of their youth and the residential facilities would become increasingly and exponentially unsafe for staff and youth. While this outcome was predicted, we are truly sorry to hear that staff and youth are being injured and killed as a result. [...]
Story: Washington Examiner By: Bill Myers Examiner Staff Writer June 8, 2010 D.C.’s embattled juvenile justice agency is facing a new round of pointed questions after one of its wards was accused of murder and another teen was an apparent victim of murder. Last week, authorities charged 16-year-old Javon Hale with murder in the May [...]
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Manuel D. Sanchez, 29, of Capitol Heights was with a crew of people hired a week ago to clean up the area in the rear of an apartment house in the 4600 block of Hillside Road in Southeast Washington. Sanchez didn’t make it home. Just after 2:00 p.m. last Friday he was shot to death. [...]
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www.thesunnews.com by Tonya Root A 16-year-old was taken into police custody on charges he trespassed at an Andrews business and pointed a gun at employees there, according to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s office. The 16-year-old, who is being charged as a juvenile, faces trespassing and pointing and presenting charges in the incident that occurred Wednesday [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 4, 2010 Contact: Michael Victorian (202) 639-6405 (202) 340-9764 CITY JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM PLAGUED WITH MISMANAGEMENT Union Says Youth Violence Directly Related to Failures of City Government (WASHINGTON) – The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents employees of the District of Columbia’s Department of Youth and Rehabilitation Services, (DYRS), [...]
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Seroquel is a powerful anti-psychotic drug prescribed for people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. On the streets it’s called Susie Q, Squirrel or Quell. At D.C. Youth Rehabilitative Services (DYRS) it’s called a sleeping pill. Story. Story. Story. When the city’s director of youth rehabilitation services, Vincent N. Schiraldi, said he was going to change the culture of D.C.’s Youth [...]