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Welcome to the JDANYS Website
John P. Treahy,
President
See the
new president's message in the
JDA
Bulletin
The website was
created to be a resource for those working
in and interested in the juvenile justice
system. It is also intended to facilitate
the Association’s ongoing mission of
improving the quality of care and service
that New York’s locally operated juvenile
detention facilities provide to the courts,
police, youth in care and communities they
serve.
Our juvenile justice system is unique in
many ways:
All facilities, while certified and
regulated by the New York State Office of
Children and Family Services, are locally
operated, either directly or through
contracts with not-for-profit corporations.
Juvenile detention is not available as a
dispositional option for the courts,
although youth placed in residential
treatment programs from detention are
eligible to receive “credit for time
served.”
In New York any youth committing a crime
after the 16th birthday is
considered an adult and will be detained in
an adult facility and processed through the
adult court system.
There are only nine (9) secure (locked)
juvenile detention facilities in New York
State. Three are located in New York City,
and one each in Nassau, Westchester, Albany,
Onondaga, Monroe and Erie counties. No
child below the age of ten may be held in a
secure facility. No Juvenile may be
detained in an adult facility and no PINS
(status offender) youth may be held in
secure detention.
All other youth (over 50% of detention
admissions statewide) remanded under
Articles 3 and 7 of the Family Court Act are
detained in a system of locally operated
non-secure (unlocked) detention programs.
We hope you find our website useful as well
as informative and we look forward to your
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About JDANYS
During the early 1970's, the statewide detention* network consisted primarily of several secure detention facilities housing boys and girls ages
10 to 16. In order to develop regulations and disseminate information. the New York State Division for Youth (DFY), the detention regulatory agency, called for meetings between DFY officials and directors of secure
detention programs. In 1975 detention administrators met in order to be prepared to respond to the direction of DFY and the Juvenile Detention Association of New York State, Inc. was formed. Between 1976 and 1978
many non-secure detention facilities were opened as a direct result of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Within several years the Association became equally represented by individuals
working in both secure and non-secure detention programs.
The Association was officially incorporated as a not-for-profit professional organization in August, 1978. A constitution, by-laws and a code of
ethics were adopted, various committees were formed and membership began to increase. The Association continues as a professional group committed to promoting excellence, communication, support and training in the
field of juvenile detention.
*Juvenile detention in New York State refers to facilities for preadjudicated children aged 7 to 16 held for, or at the direction of the
Family Court and criminal courts as Persons in Need of Supervision, juvenile delinquents and juvenile offenders.
The purposes of the Association are:
(1) to promote excellence and professionalism in the field of juvenile detention.
(2) to provide effective channels of communication between detention centers and all agencies involved in the juvenile detention process
(3) to provide a source of support, training and education for all juvenile detention personnel
(4) to study, develop and make recommendations regarding existing and proposed legislation and regulations that impact on the juvenile detention process
(5) to provide consultation and advisory services for all groups interested in the field of juvenile detention.
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