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The Closing of the Massachusetts Training
                 Schools:
            Lessons Learned




             40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
             San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
Institutional Reform: The Historical Pattern
• Calls for juvenile institutional reform result from scandal
• Public exposure results in public outcry
• Commissions are appointed to study problems
• Many months later, commission issues report with
  recommendations
• Legislature appropriates funding for minor changes
• Old practices and routines quickly resume




                       40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
                       San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
Prelude to Reform in Massachusetts:
               Triggering Events
• 1966-67 Reports by HEW Children’s Bureau, Massachusetts
  Committee on Children and Youth, and State Senate release
  critical reports on abuses in the Massachusetts Training
  Schools.
• Gubernatorial Election of 1968
• New Dept. of Youth Services created (August 1969)
• Jerome Miller appointed Commissioner (October 1969)




                    40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
                    San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
First Actions: Miller Attempts Conventional Approach to
                        Institutional Reform

•   Fix the institutions
•   Lobby for more institutional resources
•   Expand institution-based resources
•   Maintain existing structure




                     40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
                     San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
Next Actions: Miller Abandons Conventional Reform
                         Strategies

• Rejects congregate institutional care
• Establishes a new vision for juvenile justice
  system services
• Forges non-institutional alliances
• Invites outside scrutiny of institutional realities
• Lobbies policy makers for systemic change
• Sets own timetable and initiates change process



                  40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
                  San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
Strategies for Closing the Training
                Institutions
•   Target Institutional Populations
•   Regionalization
•   Purchase of Service from Private Agencies
•   Community-based programming




                  40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
                  San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
Significance to national juvenile justice
                  policy
• Demonstrated that training schools were obsolete and
  could be closed
• Demonstrated that an alternative system of primarily non-
  institutional interventions could be substituted for
  institutional confinement
• Demonstrated the political challenges of closing training
  schools




                  40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
                  San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
Obstacles to reforming juvenile justice
• Limited Resources

• Nonflexible budget

• External Political climate

• Union contracts and civil service restrictions

• Lack of community alternatives

• Staff resistance and sabotage




                       40 Boardman Place                                    www.cjcj.org
                       San Francisco, CA 94103   © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013

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9. closing ma training schools1

  • 1. The Closing of the Massachusetts Training Schools: Lessons Learned 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
  • 2. Institutional Reform: The Historical Pattern • Calls for juvenile institutional reform result from scandal • Public exposure results in public outcry • Commissions are appointed to study problems • Many months later, commission issues report with recommendations • Legislature appropriates funding for minor changes • Old practices and routines quickly resume 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
  • 3. Prelude to Reform in Massachusetts: Triggering Events • 1966-67 Reports by HEW Children’s Bureau, Massachusetts Committee on Children and Youth, and State Senate release critical reports on abuses in the Massachusetts Training Schools. • Gubernatorial Election of 1968 • New Dept. of Youth Services created (August 1969) • Jerome Miller appointed Commissioner (October 1969) 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
  • 4. First Actions: Miller Attempts Conventional Approach to Institutional Reform • Fix the institutions • Lobby for more institutional resources • Expand institution-based resources • Maintain existing structure 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
  • 5. Next Actions: Miller Abandons Conventional Reform Strategies • Rejects congregate institutional care • Establishes a new vision for juvenile justice system services • Forges non-institutional alliances • Invites outside scrutiny of institutional realities • Lobbies policy makers for systemic change • Sets own timetable and initiates change process 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
  • 6. Strategies for Closing the Training Institutions • Target Institutional Populations • Regionalization • Purchase of Service from Private Agencies • Community-based programming 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
  • 7. Significance to national juvenile justice policy • Demonstrated that training schools were obsolete and could be closed • Demonstrated that an alternative system of primarily non- institutional interventions could be substituted for institutional confinement • Demonstrated the political challenges of closing training schools 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
  • 8. Obstacles to reforming juvenile justice • Limited Resources • Nonflexible budget • External Political climate • Union contracts and civil service restrictions • Lack of community alternatives • Staff resistance and sabotage 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013