Washington state proposes transferring juvenile offenders to adult prisons due to overcrowding, but faces opposition for impacting rehabilitation and legal challenge
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state officials are seeking legislative authority to transfer certain juvenile offenders to adult prisons at younger ages than currently allowed, citing severe overcrowding at Green Hill School, the state’s maximum security juvenile detention center in Lewis County.
The facility has been operating at unsafe population levels for nearly two and a half years, prompting the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) to propose changes to existing law.
Under the “emergency transfer authority,” the state would be authorized to
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