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| Portland lawmaker hopes to phase out South Portland juvenile detention center |
| By theforecaster.net- Jocelyn Van Saun |
| Published: 01/03/2019 |
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SOUTH PORTLAND — A Portland legislator has drafted a bill he hopes will help the state reduce its reliance on Long Creek Youth Development Center until it’s no longer needed. Rather than simply calling for the closing of Long Creek, state Rep. Michael Brennan, D-Portland, said his bill would establish a task force to “develop a plan for what type of programming and services the community needs to reduce and eventually eliminate the need for incarceration.” Nationally, there has been a shift towards community-based models for juvenile justice, Brennan said, where youth have been placed in group homes that favor therapy over punishment. The task force would look into practices and community-based efforts that have proved to lead to a declining population of incarcerated juveniles, he said. Read More. |
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