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The New York City courts that process arrested adults have long been open seven days a week. But until just recently, the courts that process arrested children were closed on weekends, making it necessary for children taken into custody to be detained for 48 hours or even longer before seeing a judge.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set a welcome national example by opening a juvenile court that sits on Saturdays and Sundays and creating procedures that have already begun to cut down on unnecessary detentions while improving the treatment of children who end up in police custody.
The new system allows low-risk offenders who present no threat to public safety — and for whom detention is clearly unwarranted — to be processed quickly and released to parents or caretakers pending a decision regarding prosecution. By keeping as many children as possible out of detention and directing more of them into community-based counseling programs, the city is also lessening the chances that the children will grow up to be chronic offenders.
Instead of opening the entire Family Court system for weekends, which would have been prohibitively expensive, the city has arranged for a weekend judge who deals with adult cases at the Manhattan Criminal Court building to see juvenile offenders in a separate courtroom. The city has further speeded things along with a new risk-assessment system that classifies young offenders as low- , moderate- or high-risk individuals, depending on a variety of factors, including previous arrests and school attendance.
The rating system takes the subjectivity out of the process, allowing prosecutors, probation officers and judges to make quick decisions.
Adolescents who commit serious crimes are, of course, held pending trial. But those arrested for minor offenses will sometimes be sent home without being prosecuted or released to their parents pending a court appearance. The goal of avoiding needless detention is especially important, given data showing that children who do time are far more likely to become repeat offenders than those referred to community-based programs.
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/opinion/17tue2.html?ref=todayspaperEm cerca de oito meses, deputados visitaram 60 estabelecimentos no país
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MARIA CLARA CABRAL"I know he died, but I don't want change."
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday's municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent.
Neculai Ivascu, 57, who ran the village for almost two decades, died from liver disease just after voting began -- but still won the election by a margin of 23 votes.
A local official said the authorities decided to keep the poll open in case Ivascu's opponent, Gheorghe Dobrescu, won, avoiding the need for a re-run.
"I know he died, but I don't want change," a pro-Ivascu villager told Romanian television.
In the end, election authorities gave the post to the runner-up, but some villagers and Ivascu's party, the powerful opposition Social Democrat Party (PSD), have called for a new vote.
(Reporting by Marius Zaharia; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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