Local authorities have been put on notice that intensified efforts will be made to obtain vital information on juveniles at the island's correctional facilities.
Executive Director of the Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network, Shanique Bowden, says the organisation will continue to pursue this information to improve transparency in the system and to better protect the children.
This follows the disclosure by the Department of Correctional Services of several deficiencies at its juvenile centres.
These include serious challenges to the rehabilitation and reintegration process.
Miss Bowden explained that Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network has been hit with several roadblocks while trying to obtain details on issues related to the juveniles.
She contends that this is something that will be confronted
“I’m intending to do an appeal for that - i went to the interim review process and that revealed very little - I am also doing a request into the number of persons in the correctional facilities - why they are there, how long they have been there and i haven’t gotten any response. So my next step is an internal review for help - on the basis of a non-response,“ she said.
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