Daily News | Philly’s juvenile justice spends funds inefficiently, with ‘sub-optimal results,’ report says
A report unveiled by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office on Monday describes a juvenile justice system where funds are being inefficiently spent and producing what experts call “suboptimal results.”
The number of young people the Juvenile Probation Office serves declined by almost half between 2017 and 2021. The report attributed the drop to the closure of private and nonprofit residential With the closures of private and nonprofit facilities, young people who are not necessarily high-risk offenders might be placed in state-run facilities that cost more than $190,000 per youth.
The report also found that the “vast majority” of youths arrested come from high-poverty neighborhoods.The report found that 57% of young people charged in 2016 were rearrested within five years. could help. The report doesn’t argue that the diversion works better than traditional court proceedings, but it does say the youths involved in this approach “did not appear to substantively increase risks to public safety.” What’s more, by cutting out the most expensive aspectssuch as staffing for court hearings and monitoring court-ordered supervision programs, the cost to taxpayers declines.
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