Juvenile detention centers – where most inmates experience mental illness – aren’t equipped to handle kids with serious needs In Oregon, kids with mental health needs who come into state custody are being warehoused in juvenile detention facilities becaus ...
29 Jan 2016 - Emily Green
In 1891, George Breckonridge was the first juvenile to be placed into custody at the reform school for boys in Woodburn, Ore. His crime was stealing a newspaper off his neighbor’s porch. Fast-forward 124 years, and the population within the walls of what ...
10 Jan 2015 - Emily Green