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Youth and advocates: limited therapy, education gaps and punitive extensions cited
Summary
TeamChild and a youth with direct experience told lawmakers young people at Echo Glen and other JR facilities face limited therapy access, disrupted family contact and educational shortfalls; advocates urged expanded community transition placements and limits on punitive sentence extensions.
Greta Schultz, managing attorney for TeamChild, and youth advocate Gisela Gonzales addressed the committee to present a youth-centered perspective on conditions inside juvenile rehabilitation facilities.
Schultz said young people define "success" differently than institutional benchmarks: they name consistent mental-health services, freedom from violence, respect from staff and peers, and meaningful educational opportunities as the critical outcomes. She criticized the use of sentence extensions in some cases, saying extensions sometimes serve as what she described as…
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