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Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 22, 2022

Disability Rights Tennessee has released a new report with recommendations on fixing the “broken youth justice system” at the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, Nashville’s WKRN reports.  The 17-page report's key recommendation proposes a "families not facilities" framework as the most successful and cost-effective way to prevent children from getting into the youth justice system in the first place—and to rehabilitate those already there. According to WPLN, the report gives six recommendations, including addressing racial and geographic disparities, creating community-based mental health services for youth and families, stopping the transfers of youth to the adult criminal justice system and more. Read the report.