Reports about the use of confinement and restraint at Cook County’s Juvenile Temporary Detention Center dominated a three-hour-long hearing this week that highlighted what advocates said was troubling treatment but offered few immediate solutions.
A room at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, shown in 2013.
State detention standards mandate that room confinement should not go beyond four hours without administrators or mental health staff “developing an individual plan to address the behavior.” Youth also told observers from the group that they were concerned that JTDC staff body cameras were “used selectively, and some areas of the facility do not have video camera coverage.”The study further found “staff are not trained on the rights of students with disabilities and do not receive any information on the students’ disabilities, interventions, accommodations, or goals contained in their Individualized Educational Programs and behavior intervention plans.
Commissioner Anthony Quezada asked about confinement in what are known as “holding pods,” which are separate from residential pods and which the Equip for Equality report said youth were kept in for excessive amounts of time.Dixon replied that there are units with individual rooms that lock, but later confirmed there are designated units with holding pods, where youth involved with altercations or who “won’t participate” in classes are placed.
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