Child Welfare Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, in an op-ed that appeared in The Oklahoman last week,...
Child Welfare Stories from three states where settlements from class-action lawsuits from nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights are still being monitored: The Tennessean...
Child Welfare On December 15, 2010, the American Bar Association will host a free web-based training for attorneys who represent clients appealing...
Child Welfare Washington, D.C. has settled for $10 million with a five-year-old boy who the city placed with an abusive foster mother,...
Child Welfare Los Angeles County will review old data and look to establish a single data collection entity to track the deaths...
The department that investigates child abuse for Los Angeles County is under attack for allegedly hiding information about children who died under...
Sen. Tom Harkin makes the case for reforming for-profit colleges, in an op-ed in The Washington Post. He writes: “Too many of...
With Congress slashing President Obama’s Promise Neighborhood Initiative, the author of a book about the program on which that initiative is based,...
NEWS *** The Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice published its Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007 online last week, and also released four...
The U.S. Department of Education is proposing new rules to oversee the growing field of for-profit higher education, but it kicked the...
***Luzerne Update! A brief filed this week by U.S. attorneys in the case against disgraced judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella articulates...
The administrators meet for the first time, minutes before the forum. Standing (left to right): Robert Sweet, Shay Bilchik and Verne Speirs;...
[See related article, OJJDP Leaders Talk Money, Politics and Advocacy; watch videos from the forum at http://www.youthtodayexchange.org] John Rector1977-1979Appointed by Jimmy Carter The...
***The Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support and Education (Youth PROMISE) Act was passed out of the House Judiciary Committee...
As we have mentioned before, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases next week that could very well limit the universe...
***Connecticut a model of juvenile justice? It was pretty surprising to see that theme in the headlines of state newspapers last week....
***The biggest JJ news of the week was certainly the U.S. Supreme Court deciding to consider the constitutionality of life without parole...
Justin Reed EarlyAuthorHouse (self-published)289 pages. $19.99 ($15.99 paperback). Justin Early is a survivor. In his late 30s, an invitation to serve on...
Office of Justice Programs The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era...
[Note: This piece also appears in the Obama Job Watch in Youth Today‘s Latest News section] The scuttlebutt points to two widely-known...