AUGUSTA, Maine (AP)   A new state task force is studying the future of Maine’s juvenile justice system.

The group of governmental leaders, elected officials, judiciary members and others is set to meet Monday in Augusta.

The task force is meeting this year to unveil recommendations for alternatives to juvenile incarceration by early 2020.

Maine Chief Justice Leigh Saufley has called it a “tragedy” that state judges face a lack of sentencing options when it comes to teen offenders.

The state’s youth prison, Long Creek Youth Development Center, has faced calls for closure from advocacy groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine. A 2017 audit found the prison was housing “many youth with profound and complex mental health problems, youth whom the facility is neither designed for nor staffed to manage.”