Juveniles - Detention and Confinement - Limitations on Juvenile Contact With Incarcerated Adults
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Summary
The bill bars children who are arrested, convicted, or awaiting trial from being held in any facility where they can see or hear an adult prisoner, and it forbids transporting them together with adult inmates. It does allow a brief, six‑hour processing period in an adult jail if the child is kept out of sight and sound of adults and then moved to a juvenile facility. The goal is to protect juveniles from exposure to adult criminal environments.
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- Judiciary — Bill HearingJudiciary · Feb 5, 2026
History
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- First Reading Judiciary
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- Bartlett · sponsor
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