Maine Voices: No winners when children are incarcerated
Maine needs to divert young people from the criminal justice system and shorten sentences for those who are involved.
By Eliza May BurwellSpecial to the Press Herald
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The first time I went to Long Creek Youth Development Center was for a volunteer training in 2019 as part of my job at a local social services agency. My biggest takeaway from the training was that every volunteer and staff member who went inside the facility needed to wear a “man-down button” at all times. If the button was pressed, a group of specially trained juvenile corrections officers would immediately respond at a sprint in order to intervene in a crisis.
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