Guidance Manual for Monitoring Facilities Under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002

The purpose of this manual is to assist states in monitoring for compliance with three of the four core protections of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of 2002. The three core protections addressed in this manual are deinstitutionalization of status offenders, removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups, and separating adult offenders from juveniles in institutions. The fourth core protection, disproportionate minority confinement, has a separate manual, Disproportionate Minority Confinement Technical Assistance Manual, which was revised and updated in August 2006. This manual was first published in December 2001, updated and revised in September 2003 and again in January 2007 to comply with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002, which took effect on October 1, 2003.