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Commitment to Institution

Youth may be committed to the State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration Institution system if there standard range commitments calls for the commitment ( See grid below). In addition, If the court determines that a disposition under option A, B, or C would effectuate a manifest injustice, the court shall impose a disposition outside the standard range under RCW 13.40.160(2) and place a youth in the institution.

GRID

STANDARD RANGE

 

 

 


A+


180 WEEKS TO AGE 21 YEARS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A

103 WEEKS TO 129 WEEKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A-

15-36

52-65

80-100

103-129

 

 

 

 

 

WEEKS

WEEKS

WEEKS

WEEKS

 

 

 

 

 

EXCEPT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

30-40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEKS FOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15-17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YEAR OLDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current

B+

15-36

 

52-65

80-100

103-129

Offense

 

WEEKS

 

WEEKS

WEEKS

WEEKS

Category

 

 

 

 

 

B

LOCAL

 

 

52-65

 

 

SANCTIONS (LS)

15-36 WEEKS

 

WEEKS

 

 

C+

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15-36 WEEKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C

 

 

 

 

 

15-36 WEEKS

 

 


 

 

0

1

2

3

4

or more

PRIOR ADJUDICATIONS

JRA operates the following institutions for juvenile offenders:

Green Hill School

Green Hill School in Chehalis is a medium/maximum security fenced facility that provides older, male offenders academic education and prevocational training. Vocational programs include computer technology, light machine fabrication, vehicle maintenance, landscaping, and welding and the Juvenile Vocational Industries Program or "JVIP". This innovative and exciting program is designed to teach organizational learning skills in a real world educational/work setting to incarcerated youth. Green Hill School also provides specialized chemical dependency and sex offender treatment and services for youth with mental health issues.

Maple Lane School

Maple Lane School near Centralia is a medium/maximum security fenced facility that provides serious and middle offenders an academic program as well as on-campus work experience. Maple Lane also has programs specifically designed for older youth experiencing serious mental and emotional problems. Maple Lane School has an inpatient chemical dependency treatment program and specializes in the treatment of sex offenders.

Echo Glen Children's Center

Echo Glen Children's Center in Snoqualmie is a medium/maximum facility that serves younger males and the majority of female offenders committed to JRA. Echo Glen is not fenced, but bordered by natural wetlands. It provides an academic program with emphasis on special needs such as mental health and sex offender treatment. It has programs designed specifically for the young women placed at the facility. Echo Glen Children's Center is home to JRA's longest running in-patient chemical dependency treatment program and was the pilot site for research based interventions used in the Integrated Treatment Model.

Naselle Youth Camp

Naselle Youth Camp serves is an unfenced facility that serves male and female offenders in a medium security setting in Southwest Washington. It provides an academic program as well as a forestry work program in collaboration with the Department of Natural Resources and an aquaculture program in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Youth involved in the forestry programs assist with fighting fires during the height of the firefighting season. Naselle Youth Camp provides sex offender and outpatient chemical dependency treatment and collaborates with the University of Washington to meet the mental health needs of resident youth.

Camp Outlook

Camp Outlook is a military-style basic training camp for juvenile offenders located in the eastern Washington town of Connell. Non-violent and non-sex offender youth accepted into the Camp Outlook program can earn release to Intensive Parole supervision in the community earlier than they would have from a traditional institution program. Camp Outlook services include academic programming and cognitive/behavioral skills building.

Link to JRA Home Page : http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/jra/