Items related to COVID-19
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Youth Filed Fewer Complaints Amid the Pandemic. Is DJJ's Grievance Process Broken?
- Maureen Washburn, Mar 23, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed troubling flaws in the grievance process for youth confined in California’s state-run juvenile justice facilities.
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CA Legislators Call for Youth Releases Amid COVID-19 Outbreak at DJJ
- Maureen Washburn, Dec 31, 2020
CJCJ stands behind more than a dozen state legislators in urging Governor Newsom to take swift action on the COVID-19 crisis at the state’s youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice.
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Report Update: COVID-19 Cases Surging in CA Youth Prisons
- Maureen Washburn & Renee Menart, Dec 15, 2020
COVID-19 cases inside the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) increased sevenfold in July. Now, another dangerous outbreak is putting youth at risk.
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