34-A §4102-A. Purposes; accomplishment of purposes

Title 34-A: CORRECTIONS

Chapter 3: CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

Subchapter 8: NORTHERN MAINE REGIONAL JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY HEADING: PL 1991, C. 400 (NEW)

§4102-A. Purposes; accomplishment of purposes

1. Statement. The purposes of the Mountain View Youth Development Center are:

A. To detain juveniles pending a court proceeding; [2005, c. 328, §22 (NEW).]

B. To administer court-ordered diagnostic evaluations pursuant to Title 15, section 3309-A, and court-ordered examinations pursuant to Title 15, section 3318; [2005, c. 328, §22 (NEW).]

C. To rehabilitate juveniles committed to a juvenile correctional facility pursuant to Title 15, section 3314, subsection 1, paragraph F; [2005, c. 328, §22 (NEW).]

D. To protect the public from dangerous juveniles; [2005, c. 328, §22 (NEW).]

E. To confine juveniles ordered confined pursuant to Title 15, section 3314, subsection 1, paragraph H; [2005, c. 507, §24 (AMD).]

F. To confine juveniles ordered detained pursuant to Title 15, section 3312, subsection 3, paragraph D; [2007, c. 196, §8 (AMD).]

G. To confine juveniles ordered confined pursuant to Title 12, sections 6004, 8004 and 10608 and Title 29-A, section 115; [2007, c. 686, §5 (AMD).]

H. To confine juveniles ordered confined pursuant to Title 15, section 3314, subsection 7; and [2007, c. 686, §6 (AMD).]

I. To confine juveniles committed to a juvenile correctional facility pursuant to Title 17-A, section 1259. [2007, c. 686, §7 (NEW).]

[ 2007, c. 686, §§5-7 (AMD) .]

2. Accomplishment. To accomplish the purposes set out in subsection 1, the disciplines of education, casework, group work, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, nursing, vocational training and religion as they are related to human relations and personality development must be employed. Security measures, whether in the form of physically restrictive construction or intensive staff supervision, when appropriate, may be taken to accomplish these purposes.

[ 2005, c. 328, §22 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

2005, c. 328, §22 (NEW). 2005, c. 507, §§24,25 (AMD). 2007, c. 196, §8 (AMD). 2007, c. 686, §§5-7 (AMD).