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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, along with state and community leaders, announced recommendations from the Children s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative (CBHTI) on Friday morning.
Illinois Must End Youth Incarceration, Not âTransformâ It
An incarcerated youth at Illinois Youth Center at Warrenville, the state s maximum-security prison for girls, reads on her bed on June 27, 2007.
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Even amid a deadly pandemic, in the U.S., there are over 37,000 children currently detained or incarcerated in environments where social distancing is impossible. The most recent update from Chicagoâs Juvenile Temporary Detention Center was in November, when the chief judgeâs office announced that at least 63 youth and 73 adult staff had been infected with the coronavirus.
Those who have managed to avoid this deadly disease are still forced to endure the torturous conditions that are inherent to incarceration and are exacerbated by the lockdown conditions imposed to stop transmission of the coronavirus.