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Illinois is routinely housing wards of the state in Chicago's jail for kids
https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-dcfs-housing-kids-in-chicagos-juvenile-jail/64305b5d-eea2-4c08-915e-639e759b08d7“The judge has not ordered them held. The judge has ordered them released,” Lubelfeld said. “So every day that they sit in the detention center not being released it’s just not right. These are children. They’ve been taken away from their families and suffered trauma. They’ve been placed with a new guardian, the state, and the state is not … picking them up from the detention center.”
According to data from the Cook County chief judge’s office, last year 84 young people in the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services were left in the juvenile detention center after a judge had ordered their release. Each of them wrongfully imprisoned, sometimes for months.
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“It’s a huge civil rights violation. It’s unimaginably cruel…and it’s exploding,” said Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert, who is in charge of legal representation for the county’s abused and neglected kids.
Golbert said the main culprit is the state’s decision starting in 2015 to cut almost 500 residential beds in group homes and institutions and replace them with therapeutic foster care homes, which were supposed to provide more community-based support. It was a decision pushed by advocates and experts, but DCFS’s own reporting shows most of the therapeutic beds never materialized.
According to data from the Cook County chief judge’s office, last year 84 young people in the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services were left in the juvenile detention center after a judge had ordered their release. Each of them wrongfully imprisoned, sometimes for months.
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“It’s a huge civil rights violation. It’s unimaginably cruel…and it’s exploding,” said Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert, who is in charge of legal representation for the county’s abused and neglected kids.
Golbert said the main culprit is the state’s decision starting in 2015 to cut almost 500 residential beds in group homes and institutions and replace them with therapeutic foster care homes, which were supposed to provide more community-based support. It was a decision pushed by advocates and experts, but DCFS’s own reporting shows most of the therapeutic beds never materialized.
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