Detention Committee

Mission

To further justice by providing a safe, caring environment that guides children in our care toward productive, lawful lives, and enhances community safety and well-being.

Vision

Minors in the Illinois juvenile justice system are valued as human beings and treated with respect and dignity, their diversity embraced and potential affirmed.  Thus, juvenile detention in Illinois has become part of an integrated system of care where…

• Only kids with the highest risk to harm others are detained for as little time as absolutely necessary.

• Caring, competent, compassionate staff are helping kids build skills for productive, law-abiding lives.

• Our programming is reducing risk to re-offend, and we can prove it.

Core Values

• Children are our greatest natural resource and represent our collective future. 

• Justice and Public safety are community concerns and can only be achieved through collective and collaborative efforts.

• In order for a justice system to have integrity, it must be based upon respect for the individual and the understanding that the always present potential for change can only be realized through the building of positive relationships.