Pa. Supreme Court rejects plea to order comprehensive release of juvenile criminal offenders over coronavirus

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order the blanket release of juvenile criminal offenders and delinquents from detention centers over fears that the coronavirus might run rampant in those facilities.

The high court didn’t stand in the way of releases ordered by the county court judges who sent the juveniles to those detention, corrections and residential centers, however. And they directed county courts to restrict the number of new juvenile commitments to those facilities.