I tell them to 'just stay strong. You need to stay strong for you and your family and your child. But no one is laughing at the organization today. In its two years, Justice for Children has had successes. Visiting days at the hall are now divided alphabetically by a parent's last name.
Parents are in two visiting groups.
They visit either on Wednesday and Saturday or on Thursday and Sunday. Before October, there had been only two days a week for parent visits. The added days eliminate long lines of parents waiting to go inside for 30-minute visits. A new juvenile grievance form, numbered and in triplicate, is being developed for complaints about staff and conditions in the hall. The juvenile retains one copy, a staff member gets another and a third is sent to hall administration.