Justice committee  We have only one home for youth serving an open custody disposition.

Justice committee  Very much so. It turns out that this particular home--and there is another one in Saint John--has become more a provincial resource than a local community resource, because of reductions in funding by the Department of Public Safety. Nonetheless, by maintaining youth--ideally i

Justice committee  Well, we've had people with a variety of different conflicts with the law that have been there--in some cases very severe conflicts with the law. In some cases it's used as a step-down facility, where people are actually leaving secure custody. That's a good way to reintegrate th

Justice committee  I don't see any benefit to publishing a young person's name in the newspaper. Sometimes labels are difficult things to shed, I think. As was mentioned, sometimes this can even be used as a badge of honour. I don't see it creating a safer community; I see much more of a downside t

Justice committee  I suppose they would use it appropriately. I don't know that there's going to be an advantage, though, of them actually making a decision to include this at any given point in time. I'm just not seeing where there would be any possible advantage, so I would prefer to see it not a

Justice committee  I want to thank the committee for this opportunity to provide input to the proposed changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act. I am the executive director of Moncton Youth Residences and have worked for this NGO for almost 25 years now. This is the largest non-profit organizatio