Kate's Churchill Fellowship

 Photos here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HfCGY0Aar9XV2tFPZc3W1reSmkkeHQGr?usp=share_link Jacksonville, Florida Tourism I stayed in a place called St Augustine, which was the first colonised town in the USA by the Spanish. It’s a gorgeous seaside location and I spent the day on a hop-on, hop-off trolley learning about the history of the place and wandering through the streets. I walked around the city of Jacksonville, which seems to have every type of food and shop imaginable. I went to a mall and felt like I was in every movie I’d ever loved as a teenager. Jacksonville Street Gangs I visited the Duval Regional Youth Detention Centre on Valentine’s Day. The Major (head of the centre) was a man who had worked in the system for decades and admitted he had no idea why I was there or why I would choose Jacksonville in a list of places to visit to learn about youth detention. I said I had been referred by the USA’s National Gang Research Centre and he said that mad...

Photos here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CFcbp2yoTEbE5CRmwtxbt5fkH4qnlHL2?usp=share_link  I have spent the past three days exploring the world-renowned Missouri model of care for young people who are in the care of the State of Missouri, USA because of their crimes. I have visited three levels of secure care and a day treatment centre managed by the Division of Youth Services, and two youth detention remand facilities managed by Clay County and Jackson County. Missouri is made up of 114 counties and it has been fascinating to see how the stage legislation and local county systems interact. Legislative context Many significant, high-level offences are dealt with by the adult system There is a significant legislative difference that influences Missouri’s Division of Youth Services’ approach, which is that young people who commit felonies are often treated as adults in the court system – therefore they are subject to adult sentences and can be sent to an adult ...