Nearly 15,000 non-violent and misdemeanor juvenile cases have been diverted from the court system in the past six years in Harris County, District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Friday.
in 2018 that since 2014, Texas courts sent about 800 kids ages 10 to 17 to state juvenile prisons. In Harris County, the number of youth sent to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department ballooned from 101 in 2014 to 199 in 2018. Two Harris County judges sent more than one-fifth of all kids to state juvenile prisons in 2017.that the U.S. Department of Justice was quietly probing the county’s troubled juvenile justice system.
Through several community-based deferral programs, Ogg said her office has made strides in reducing the number of incarcerated youth in the county. According to Ogg, nearly 63 percent of all cases referred to her office in 2022 were diverted away from the justice system.Harvey Clemons Jr., chair of the Center for Urban Transformation, a Fifth Ward nonprofit that helps families overcome inequity, said the diversion program is about public safety.
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