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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Ind. Courts - update on: "St. Joseph County judge has stopped sending female offenders to the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility"
The ILB has had a number of entries on this topic, based on a story published in the Indianapolis Star on Dec. 20, 2007.
Today Jeff Parrott of the South Bend Tribune reports:
St. Joseph County juvenile justice officials say they're cautiously optimistic about news last week that the Indiana Department of Correction will make sweeping changes to its Indianapolis juvenile facility.The DOC has announced it will end a two-year-old arrangement to house boys and girls at the same Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility by moving the boys to a recently renovated section of the Logansport Juvenile Correctional Facility.
"I think it may correct a lot of the problems I wrote the governor about," St. Joseph County Probate Court Judge Peter Nemeth said. * * *
Nemeth said he had stopped sending girls there and would not resume doing so until changes were made.
DOC officials have denied the changes are related to Nemeth's letter.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 16, 2008 02:08 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts