Feige on juvy

From Indefensible:

Stop Jailing the Juvies...

(R)ather than promoting public safety, detention — the pretrial “jailing” of youth not yet found delinquent — may contribute to future offenses...

I have a number of clients in pre-trial detention. At least one is in an especially frustrating bureaucratic limbo: not adjudicated, and ordered to treatment to attempt to restore competency, but with no hospital bed open 'til December 11, my client continues to sit in detention.