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DOJ inspects juvenile detention
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Posted on Apr 08 2008
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention recently inspected the Kagman Juvenile Detention and Correction Facility while on island to provide technical assistance to the Criminal Justice Planning Agency.
According to Department of Community and Cultural Affairs acting Secretary Melvin Faisao, the U.S. Department of Justice representatives “were very pleased and impressed with their findings and announced during the meeting that the facility is in compliance.”
DOJ representatives Carmen Santiago Roberts and Lawrence L. Fiedler conducted the inspection of the facility’s educational and intake processing, the number of staff, and the standard operating procedures in place.
Faisao said the representatives were very interested in how the department uses the federal funding it receives under the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act.
Roberts and Fiedler acknowledged the officials of the CJPA and DCCA for adhering to the requirements such as sight and sound barriers and implementation of statistical data collection.
Faisao said the DOJ representatives advised DCCA to submit requests for additional technical and funding assistance that may be needed to fulfill the JJDP Act within the Division of Youth Services.
CJPA’s Vincent M. Camacho said the DOJ representatives had some recommendations but he has yet to receive them.
In 2005, immigration detainees were temporarily placed with juveniles at the juvenile detention facility under a memorandum of understanding with the Attorney General’s Office.
Although no harm was done, the DOJ said it was not a good idea to mix these detainees with juveniles. The juvenile detention facility no longer takes in immigration detainees since then.
