The center also will make sure new buildings are accessible. The foundation agreed to remove barriers for easier access to patient rooms, bathrooms and other areas at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage. attorney’s office says the agreement was finalized Friday with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. Rancho Mirage: The Betty Ford drug and alcohol treatment center has agreed to make sure its facilities are accessible to the disabled. It wants Arkansas to use diversion tactics to keep youths out of detention and provide effective treatment for those who must be imprisoned. The nonprofit Disability Rights Arkansas, which monitors the treatment of children in state lockups, says the closure represents progress, but more is needed. Hutchinson says he wants the state to provide “better quality, individualized treatment” for juvenile offenders. The most recent closure leaves just five state juvenile lockups in operation. A Youth Services Division spokeswoman says the last 10 inmates have been sent home or to other facilities. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the Dermott Juvenile Treatment Center closed Thursday. Asa Hutchinson’s plan to streamline and improve the state’s juvenile system. Arkansasĭermott: A youth detention center has been closed as part of Gov. One raccoon arrived covered in cement, according to the center’s Facebook page. Carr said raccoons in particular are coming in such huge numbers that the center is building new enclosures just to accommodate them. Center director Lisa Searles says workers currently have at least 100 animals going through rehabilitation – double the amount they had this time last year. Some of the animals cared for include bobcats, foxes, skunks, rabbits, black bear cubs, coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, javelinas and porcupines. The center releases animals to the wild and gives shelter to those that can’t be released – and right now, it’s up to its ears in wildlife to care for, according to spokeswoman Kim Carr. Scottsdale: There’s an influx of new animals this season at the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, a nonprofit rescue organization that rehabilitates the injured, displaced and orphaned. The funding would be available immediately and is meant to help hire additional village and tribal officers and to pay for equipment and training. The Justice Department has previously declared similar emergencies after mass shootings and to combat spikes in violent crime. It’s the first time Barr has personally declared a law enforcement emergency since he assumed his role in February. Friday’s announcement follows a trip Barr made in May to meet with Native leaders in the state, who described disproportionately high rates of violence and sexual assault in Native communities. Attorney General William Barr has declared a law enforcement emergency in Alaska, clearing the way for the Justice Department to award more than $10 million to combat crime in rural Alaskan communities. Critics have said staffing levels are a more pressing concern. Ivey has presented new facilities as part of the solution to prisons beset with violence and overcrowding.
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She said the state will first gather proposals from companies and then decide how to proceed. Kay Ivey in February announced a plan to build three new prisons. The prisons would each house more than 3,000 male inmates. The department wrote that its goal is to break ground in mid-2020. The department wrote that it intends to gather qualified companies and then take proposals later this year. The prison system last week posted a “request for qualifications” from companies interested in building the facilities. Montgomery: The state Department of Corrections is moving along with a plan to build three new prisons.