Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 19 when he and his brother, aged 26, allegedly carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing and a slew of...
I don’t think rape is funny, and I don’t find jokes about rape entertaining. A lot of people might feel the same...
Here we go again. It seems as if every couple of years, we are compelled to repeat the same story—wildings in the...
If we understand that there are good evolutionary reasons for our wanting people to suffer when they have done direct or indirect...
In his 1964 Nobel acceptance speech, Martin Luther King Jr. noted the seeming disparity of awarding the prize to a leader of the...
Sexual violence against girls (and women) is an accepted part of American culture, particularly when carried out by privileged males. This is...
Juvenile Justice Applying juvenile reforms that work to adult detention. Georgia juvenile corrections officers have 57 percent annual turnover rate. Education Kentucky...
One of the most effective and long-running efforts to change both policies and practices in juvenile justice is Reclaiming Futures, housed at the...
ATHENS– There are a dozen or so people around the large table. Men and women from the police department, Department of Juvenile...
“Hawaii is spending nearly $200,000 per bed per year to house juvenile offenders, most of whom got in trouble for non-violent low-level...
Juvenile Justice Troubled Texas juvenile facility to be closed, but some staff remain. Examining girls’ paths to delinquency. Education U.S. DOE to...
It was all about the pecans. Growing up in south Georgia (where we pronounce the last syllable as “can”), I was accustomed...
One of the most entrenched ideas in American culture is that punishment is effective both at creating justice and at affecting change...
The myth of Thanksgiving is deeply embedded in American culture. I can remember cutting out paper turkeys and making pilgrim hats and...
The woman, a grandmother, was telling me about her two grandsons, aged four and five, “I’m afraid for them, and they are...
Juvenile Justice Op-Ed: Some kids deserve adult punishment. Three teens begin hearings in Memphis murder trial. Education DOE teams with unions to...
There is a world within prisons that only the prisoners know. Correctional officers, administrators, counselors and academics may all have access to...
On my first day in prison the doctor checked to see if I was a homosexual. It was a regular part of...
Kids are different. That, in many ways, is the bottom line of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama, which held...
Stronger Hospital, picture above, is one of the only places in Chicago where trans youth can get assistance transitioning at an affordable...