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GGD-78-44 1 (1978-03-14)

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               COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                        WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548



B-171019                            March 14, 1978

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The Honorable Birch Bayh                       LM105437
United States Senate

Dear Senator Bayh:

     On September 27, 1977, we testified before the Subcommit-
tee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Senate Committee on
the Judiciary, on the results of our review of States' efforts
to remove status offenders 1/ from detention and correctional
facilities as required of participating States by the Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. At that time,
you requested our views on Indiana's progress.

     Our review of Indiana's efforts to remove status offen-
ders 2/ indicates that Indiana is experiencing problems simi-
lar to those we identified in our testimony. Those problems
were:

     --Effective monitoring systems have not been established
       to determine whether deinstitutionalization has been
       or will be achieved.

     --State laws and practices frequently conflict with the
       act's deinstitutionalization mandate.

     --Appropriate alternatives to incarceration have gener-
       ally not been identified and developed.

Each problem area as it applies to Indiana is discussed below.

     We discussed Indiana's progress with officials of the
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration's Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Indiana Criminal


1/Juveniles who are charged with or who have committed offen-
  ses that would not be criminal if committed by an adult.

2/'In this report removal of status offenders is referred to
  as deinstitutionalization.


                                                      GGD-78-44
                                                      (18585)

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