Young Marylanders with severe mental health needs are ‘inappropriately’ sent to juvenile detention settings, report says

Young Marylanders with severe mental health needs are being “inappropriately” sent to detention settings that are struggling to help them, according to the state’s Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit. And it’s possible those environments, including the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, are worsening the young people’s conditions, the monitoring unit said in a recent report.