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GGD-78-37 1 (1978-06-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaxmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUME 06291 - [B15866041 Removing Status Offenders from Secure Facilities: Federal Leadership and Guidance Are Needed. GG£-78-37; B-168530. June 5, 1978. 40 pp. + 6 appendices (40 pp.). Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, coaptrcller General. Issue Area: Law Enforcement and Crime Ereventicn (5CC). Contact: General Government Div. Budget Function: Law Enforcement and Justict: Law Enforcement Assistance (754). Organization Concerned: Department of Justice; Law Enfcrcement Assistance Administration. Conqres.v4nnal Relevance: House Committee on Educatic and Labor; Senate Committec cn the Judiciary; Ccngress. Authority: Ju-venile Justica and Delinquency Preventicn Act of 1971', as amended (P.L. 95-115). Crime Ccntrcl Act. Concern has been expressed in recent years about the use of detention and correctional facilities for juveniles who are charqed with or have committei status offenses such as truancy, incorrigiility, and running away. The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) estimates that of the youths referred to juvenile courts on status offense charges, perhaps as high as 10% are ultijateiy placed in secure institutions. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 attempted to change this extensive practice by stating that LEAk could not award formu3 grants authorized by the act to a State unless it included a provision in its lav ;,nforcement Elan that status offenders wold no longer he Flaced in detention or correctional facilities. Findings/Ccnclusions: Altbough States participating in the act have agreed tc ccsily with the deinstitutionalization requirement, mcst States have laws allowing status oftendcrs to be placed ii deterticn or. correctional facilities under certain circumstances. Most of the juvenile istice officials interviewed telieved such incarcerations to be justified. Not enough alte:cnate services for status offenders have been develcped, and uncertainty exists among State and Federal officials concerning aFropriate dispositions. The LEAA has done little to fully explore the problems that States are having in meeting the act's requirements; it has developed little infcxmaticn concerning the types of services that appear most effective for status offenders under various situations. Few States hl#e established compLehen:F've systems to monitor jails, detention facilities, and correctional institutions although such systems are required of participating States by the act. Reccmuendations: The Attorney General should direct the LEAA Administrat.r to: identity problems which are preventing the remn:val cf all status offenders from secure detention and correctional facilities in each participating State, evaluate them to detcrmine how States could be given assistance for meeting thi- requirement, and

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