The Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association has called on area judges and district...
Lance Campbell stands in the courtroom with his attorneys, Murray Newman, left, and Cheryl Chapell, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022 in Houston. Campbell, 30, is standing trial in the 174th District Court on a murder charge in connection with the death of Michael Haynie, 60, a homeless man shot and killed in June 2019 outside a Hobby Airport-area washateria.and district attorneys to keep juveniles out of the state’s justice department, following the release of a U.S.
How to address juvenile offenders has emerged as a flash point across the country, as officials struggle to balance public pressure to keep violent and dangerous offenders off the streets with a youth prison systems often straining to meet the demands of rehabilitating young offenders.released an early report
“The report makes it clear that the rational goal of fair and caring treatment for these young people who suffer the difficulties of trauma, mental illness, intellectual disability and neglect are actually suffering at the hands of the people we all hoped would help them,” the letter said. “The agency has already been working on the issues raised in the report with the help of the legislature and has made tremendous progress in staffing and treatment capacity,” said Barbara Kessler, a spokesperson for the organization.
Members of the Harris County association noted specific concerns about reports that more than half of youth placed in the state facilities have been under suicide watch, that chronic under staffing meant children had to wait months for medication in some instances and that staffing was so low that juveniles had to spend hours in isolation.
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