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BALTIMORE- Maryland: Report: Youth offender facilities unclean
Report: Youth offender facilities unclean
Sep 17, 2007 3:00 AM (1 day ago) by Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner http://www.examiner.com/a-938860~Rep...unclean.h tml BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Maryland taxpayers fork over millions of dollars to house the state’s troubled youth, but a new report shows juvenile offenders live in facilities plagued by insects, rodents, moldy showers, worn-out bathrooms and leaky ceilings. “We believe these conditions result from many years of severe neglect by the state of Maryland, the public’s ignorance of these conditions, and the ‘forgotten’ status to which we relegate children who have broken the law,” according to a recent report from the attorney general’s Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit highlighting the 12 worst facilities. Youth at the Cheltenham Youth Facility in Cheltenham are housed in “old, dilapidated cottages” with heavy steel, prison-style doors and small, high-placed windows clouded with age. The facility also suffers from insect and rat infestations. At the state’s facility for girls, the Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center in Laurel, youth often urinate and defecate on themselves, because their cells do not have toilets and they can’t wait any longer for someone to let them out. The bathroom leaked so much at the Maryland Youth Residence Center/William Donald Schaefer House in Baltimore City that the ceiling collapsed on the dining hall. The Thomas O’Farrell Youth Center in Marriottsville lacks air conditioning in one of the living units and uses tape on windows for insulation. At J. DeWeese Carter Children’s Center in Chestertown, youth sleep on the floor in mattresses cradled in plastic containers called “boats.” The centers are unsafe, ineffective for rehabilitating youth and expensive, said Linda Heisner, deputy director for the nonprofit Advocates for Children and Youth. Every year, it costs between $50,000 and $60,000 for each child, eating up the majority of the Department of Juvenile Services’ $200 million budget. Community-based services, which youth attend while living at home, cost $8,000 to $9,000 per child, Heisner said. Such a program will launch this year in Baltimore County, Juvenile Services spokeswoman Tammy Brown said. Juvenile Services Secretary Donald DeVore has approved a $600,000 project to renovate Waxter’s bathrooms to improve safety and privacy. “We don’t have the funding to make all the improvements that need to be done because they have been ignored for so long,” Brown said. The deficiencies persist because new administrations take office every four years, said Marlana Valdez, director of the monitoring unit. CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA WIRETAPPING PROGRAM.... CPS Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent should read this .pdf from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS *Perpetrators of Maltreatment* Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13 Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12 Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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