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GGD-83-23 1 (1983-03-22)

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BY THE US GENERAL ACCOUNT NO OFF CF




Report To The Attorney General And

The Secretary Of The Interior






Improved Federal Efforts Needed To Change

Juvenile Detention Practices


GAO reviewed secure detention practices in
five States and concluded that the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven-
tion needs to assist the States in improving
their detention criteria, monitoring and re-
cordkeeping systems, and providing approp-
riate alternatives to detention. The States
were detaining manyjuveniles who had not
committed serious crimes under conditions
that did not always meet nationally recom-
mended standards.

GAO also reviewed the secure detention
policies of five Federal agencies and found
they were not always consistent with objec-
tives of the Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention Act. The Department of
Justice agreed that this report accurately
portrays juvenile detention practices in the
States GAO reviewed and that certain poli-
cies and practices of Federal agencies were
not consistent with the act's objectives. It
said that its support and fulfillment of the
recommendations will improve juvenile de-
tention practices at the local, State and Fed-
eral levels.



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