The Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission recommends the following six steps:
- Eliminating detention for children 10 – 12 years old
- Requiring use of alternatives to arresting and detaining children and youth in crisis
- Restricting secure detention to situations in which community safety is at risk
- Limiting the role of policing in schools
- Eliminating the trial, sentencing, and punishment of youth as adults
- Expanding the automatic expungement of juvenile records
To read the Commission's full statement, visit:
http://ijjc.illinois.gov/sites/ijjc.illinois.gov/files/assets/IJJC%20Racial%20Justice%20Statement_June%202020_0.pdf