Violence is on the rise at a handful of Maryland’s juvenile detention facilities. Staff members at the Victor Cullen Center used handcuffs to restrain youths nearly 200 times in 2011, up from 36 times in 2010. At Cheltenham Youth Facility, riots and other “group disturbances” took place 65 times in 2011, up from a dozen [...]
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The Prince George’s County youth detention center where a teacher was killed in 2010 saw a huge jump in assaults last year,according to a new report. The report by the Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit, the watchdog for Maryland’s youth facilities, found that youth-on-youth assaults at the Cheltenham Youth Facility climbed from 221 in 2010 to 370 in [...]
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Police in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County say an 18-year-old was severely injured in a fight with another teen across the street from Broadneck Senior High School in Annapolis. Police say that according to a preliminary investigation the 18-year-old got into a fight with a 15-year-old student Friday at approximately 2:15 p.m., just after the school [...]
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The Maryland Department of Juvenile Services is taking steps to obtain the early release of a 15-year-old female who pleaded guilty to the April 2011 hate crime beating of transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis at a McDonald’s restaurant outside Baltimore. According to Baltimore County Assistant State’s Attorney John Cox, DJS officials recently informed his office [...]
A 17-year-old boy stabbed and wounded another 17-year-old boy during an apparently gang-related fight Thursday at Beltsville’s High Point High School, authorities said. The incident occurred about 11 a.m. in a breezeway at the school, said Cpl. Henry Tippett, a Prince George’s County Police spokesman. He said the assailant used some type of small knife [...]
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MASSACHUSETTS -BOSTON — As a group worker at a juvenile correctional center, John Prevatt is willing to take an occasional punch or elbow as he tries to keep the teens who live there in line. But Prevatt has had his nose broken, been kicked in the head, had two concussions and nearly had his neck [...]
Assaults have skyrocketed this year at the Prince George’s County youth detention facility where a 65-year-old teacher was raped and killed last February.A new report by the Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit, the watchdog for Maryland’s youth facilities, says reports of assaults and suicidal behaviors are rising at the Cheltenham Youth Facility, which remains overcrowded and [...]
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