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| Division of Juvenile Justice Consolidated in North Carolina |
| By correctionalnews.com |
| Published: 09/27/2013 |
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Public Safety recently announced an end to its dedicated juvenile justice system. The elimination will result in terminating senior juvenile justice professional leaders, reassigning section leaders to become Division of Adult Corrections managers and renaming the entire entity as the Division of Adult Corrections and Juvenile Services. This realignment will increase efficiencies in upper management and administrative support, while maintaining critical field operations and enhancing preventive and support services, according to the Department of Public Safety (DPS). North Carolina’s Division of Juvenile Justice began as the Office of Juvenile Justice in 1998 and became the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2000. As a result of putting the juvenile justice division in place, North Carolina’s crime rate is at a 15-year low, institutional placements have dropped by over 70 percent during that time, detention center rates have dropped by over 25 percent and a multitude of facilities have been closed — some planned and some through budget reductions from the legislature, according to an article by Linda Hayes, former secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in North Carolina. According to Hayes, the system focused on three primary subsystems: community programs, court-focused services (supervision and accountability through effective case management, diversions when possible and collaboration among community partners) and deeper end facility services (detention and youth development centers). Read More. |
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