D.C. teens in need of rehabilitation wait months in a detention center
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D.C. teens in need of rehabilitation wait months in a detention center
Washington’s juvenile justice agency appeared to finally be reformed. After decades of court monitoring, a judge declared in late 2020 that the long-troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services could return to the mayor’s control.Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) promised “a focus on restorative justice, love, and empowerment” that would “serve and improve the lives of our young people, their families, and our entire community.”Instead, progress at the agency — charged with setting serious and repeat teen offenders on a better path — unraveled as youth crime spiked, a Washington Post investigation found:“You want to stop crime in the city, as ..