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Replicating Detention Reform

April 2, 2001

This report compares two reform efforts with similar goals but different outcomes, highlighting lessons on reducing juvenile detention center populations.

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Promoting and Sustaining Detention Reforms

March 2, 2001

Lessons from a Casey-led project on launching juvenile detention reform — what worked, what didn’t and how to build better alternatives through JDAI.

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Special Detention Cases

February 2, 2001

This report outlines strategies to reduce detention for minors with warrants, probation violators and post-adjudication youth through Casey’s JDAI.

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Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Detention

January 2, 2001

This report explores racial disparities in juvenile confinement and outlines how we can create a fairer juvenile justice system for today’s minority youth.

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The Human Services Workforce Initiative

November 5, 2000

This report presents an overview of the Casey Foundation’s long-term efforts to address gaps in the systems that serve disadvantaged children and families.

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AdvoCasey: Fall 1999 Winter 2000

January 2, 2000

This AdvoCasey edition covers foster care reform, alumni outcomes and how JDAI sites reduced inappropriate secure detention use.

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Juvenile Jailhouse Rocked: Reforming Detention in Chicago, Portland and Sacramento

November 28, 1999

This article explores how secure detention really works, how Casey launched JDAI and its impact on jurisdictions and the broader detention field.

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By the Numbers

August 2, 1999

This report shares data and tech-driven tips from Casey’s JDAI to advance juvenile detention reform and promote effective alternatives to incarceration.

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Improving Conditions of Confinement in Secure Juvenile Detention Centers

July 2, 1999

This report shares lessons from JDAI on improving facility conditions and provides principles for safer, more humane and continuously assessed institutions.

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