Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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771Navigating the Future of Juvenile Sentencing After Miller v. Alabama
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth sent out an email this week lauding two recent decisions in the ongoing efforts to...
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1.2KCreating Economic Opportunity for Girls by Taking a Gender Lens to Programs & Policies
SEATTLE — A big round clock is ticking on the screen as Girl Effect, the Nike Foundation’s video sensation, begins to play in...
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Once a Bad Girl, Not Always a Bad Girl
The numbers tell us two sobering facts about girls and juvenile justice. First, they tell us that the percentage of girls in...
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785These Kids Are Our Kids
Last weekend I was conducting a workshop on restorative practices and many of the participants were educators, social workers and others who...
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879It’s about Equality: The Case for Investing in Gender-specific Outcomes
Investing in women and girls has become the mantra of the day in corporate and private philanthropy. Even the U.S. State Department...
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492Revisiting the ‘Reform Riot’
The recent election of Bill de Blasio, a self-proclaimed and unabashed progressive, is at once reflecting and generating renewed interest in a...
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490When Reform Fails on the State Level, Turn to Local Advocates
North Carolina is the only state in the U.S. that treats all 16 and 17-year-olds as adults when they are charged with...
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OP-ED: Fear, Race and Bias Inside and Outside the System
I learned to fear black men at a relatively late age. Although I was brought up in south Georgia in a time...
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We Can’t Improve the US by Fishing for Red Herrings
It is a fact that it is not easy being black or Latino in the United States. More specifically, it’s not safe,...
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OP-ED: Restorative Justice Isn’t a Plug and Play Option
A friend of mine has been working for several years to implement restorative practices in his Midwestern community. He has worked with...
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OP-ED: Social Media and the New Landscape of Youth Mentoring
A new report estimates that more than 4 million young people enter formal mentoring programs at some point, double the rates a decade ago....
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OP-ED: One Boy’s Story of Solitary Confinement
For James Burns solitary confinement began when he was six years old. As he writes in a recent ACLU article, “They restrained me,...
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The Kid Brain and the Adult Criminal Justice System
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 19 when he and his brother, aged 26, allegedly carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing and a slew of...
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1.0KVictim Blaming and the Reality of Sexual Violence
Sexual violence against girls (and women) is an accepted part of American culture, particularly when carried out by privileged males. This is...
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Top Headlines 1/06
Juvenile Justice Applying juvenile reforms that work to adult detention. Georgia juvenile corrections officers have 57 percent annual turnover rate. Education Kentucky...
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Top Stories 12/18
Juvenile Justice Troubled Texas juvenile facility to be closed, but some staff remain. Examining girls’ paths to delinquency. Education U.S. DOE to...
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Top Headlines 11/21
Juvenile Justice Op-Ed: Some kids deserve adult punishment. Three teens begin hearings in Memphis murder trial. Education DOE teams with unions to...
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Prison is No Place to Grow Up: Why Every State Must Enact Juvenile Justice Reforms
Most of us know at least a few young teens — 15-, 16-, 17-year-olds. A son or daughter. A niece or nephew. ...
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OP-ED: “Prisoners for Profit” Reveals Corruption and Abuse
Being a prisoner isn’t easy. Prisons in the United States, including juvenile prisons, are terrible places to be. Despite the conservative trope...
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OP-ED: A Better Way to Be in the World
Georgia Conflict Center, where I work as Executive Director, shares offices with several other nonprofits. We get to know the other folks...
