Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on School-to-Prison Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Twenty-year-old Edward Ward (pictured left), a sophomore on the honor roll at DePaul University, tried to describe to U.S. Sens....
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Recognizing the Invisible Threads Connecting Us All
My first workshop in restorative justice was just a few years ago. I had been studying the literature, and considering how the...
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Reconsidering Life Sentences for Juveniles who Kill
In the 1993 book “Dead Man Walking“, Sister Helen Prejean tells the story of people directly impacted by capital punishment – convicted...
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Juveniles with Mandatory Life Sentences Should be Resentenced
The recent decision (reported here by the L.A. Times) by the U.S. Supreme Court to ban mandatory juvenile life without parole has been rightly celebrated as...
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When the Law Doesn’t Fit the Crime: Lessons from the Blogosphere
Practicing criminal law is not rocket science. It’s also not open-heart surgery. But it’s more than just slapping a slice of cheese...
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Top Headlines 8/29
Education The 2012 GOP education platform stresses teachers staying accountable and school choices for parents and children, reports Huffington Post. Child Welfare...
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Miracle in Philadelphia or Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Titanic?
More than 220 years ago, the eyes of our emerging nation were focused on Philadelphia, as our Founding Fathers gathered there to...
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The Human Cost of Juvenile Life Sentences
Receiving a life sentence is a shock. When the judge said to me, in 1985, “I sentence you to life in prison...
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Prisoners Are Human Beings Too
Sometimes I forget I was in prison, even though I spent nearly a quarter century there. Maybe, I just get caught up in...
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Top Headlines for 11/28
Child Welfare Marcy Valenzuela, a former foster youth from East Los Angeles, makes the case in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that...
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Top Headlines for 11/14
Child Welfare Emily Canal of the New York Times wrote an excellent piece on the struggle of homeless families in the city...
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Top Headlines for 10/25
Child Welfare A gang of vigilante computer hackers linked to the Anonymous group is taking down websites that portray child abuse and...
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Top Headlines for 10/24
Child Welfare Indiana has spent the past few years moving away from residential placements and toward foster families, report Kathleen Quilligan and...
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Top Headlines for 10/18
Child Welfare Michael Petit, president of Every Child Matters, wonders in an op-ed for the BBC why child abuse is so acute...
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Top Headlines for 10/17
Child Welfare University of Massachusetts student Melissa Peterkin, writing an op-ed for the Boston Globe, reports on a state law that intended...
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Top Headlines 9/7
Child Welfare Gov. Rick Snyder (R-Mich.) signed into law yesterday a four-year limit on cash welfare benefits, meaning that thousands of families...
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Top Headlines 8/17
Child Welfare Rhode Island Rep. Jim Langevin is pushing legislation aimed at protecting foster children from identity theft, reports David Klepper of...
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Top Headlines 8/15
Child Welfare David Klepper of the Associated Press reports on Rhode Island’s use of out-of-state placements for foster youths, some of whom...
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Top Headlines 8/3
Child Welfare Former Michigan foster youth Jerome Jones, in an op-ed for the Detroit News, lauds his home state for considering legislation...
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Top Headlines 7/5
Child Welfare A Chicago-based nonprofit has worked with a Milwaukee church to help establish 24 households where children in crisis can go...
