The Juvenile Justice Task Force report gave us a roadmap to reform. Now it's up to lawmakers to finish the job | Opinion [penncapital-star.com]

Alison Cebulla 7/5/2112:00 PM

By Malik Pickett, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, June 27, 2021

Glen Mills, Wordsworth, Devereaux, and most recently the Delaware County Juvenile Justice Center are all highly publicized scandals involving the abuse of children inside Pennsylvania juvenile facilities.

Abuses such as these precipitated Gov. Tom Wolf’s creation of the Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Task Force which studied the Commonwealth’s juvenile justice system for 16 months to create recommendations for reform. Last week, the task force released its final report containing those recommendations.

While the release of the final report signals the end of the task force’s activity, it is the beginning of the process through which the Legislature can give life to these recommendations by enacting them into legislation.

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