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All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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2.4KNewsSouth Carolina Juvenile Prison Workers Walk Out In Protest
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — About two dozen correctional officers and teachers at South Carolina’s beleaguered juvenile justice agency joined an impromptu walkout...
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3.1KOpinionYouth Justice Needs Specialized Training of Judges, Lawyers, Court Employees, and Courtroom Language that Doesn’t Demean
“Move the bodies.” That’s what a defense lawyer recently overheard an employee in juvenile court say, as if the young people being...
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971GrantsChild-friendly Family Visiting in Jails and Prisons Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Family, Parenting, Child Development, Incarcerated Parents, Justice System | Amount: Up to $350,000 | Deadline: July 12, 2021
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4.9KOpinionA Case for Better Funding of California’s Community Alternatives to Juvenile Detention and Probation
Supporters of the juvenile justice status quo wrongly claim that community-based organizations are not yet strong enough to serve all youth who...
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1.5KNewsLawmakers Grill South Carolina’s Juvenile Prisons Director
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina legislators are pushing to replace the director of the state's embattled juvenile prisons, who stumbled through...
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10.1K► ReportsNational Juvenile Arrests, 1980-2019
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention discusses the latest trends in juvenile arrests.
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2.9KNewsBan On Juvenile Life Without Parole Fails In New Mexico
A bill that would have prohibited life sentences and mandated earlier probation eligibility for juveniles has failed to become law in New...
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Transforming Juvenile Probation: Restructuring Probation Terms to Promote Success
Researchers from the Urban Institute discuss how to reform the probation system to be less harmful to youth prospects and seek greater...
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2.0K► ReportsArrested Learning: A Survey of Youth Experiences of Police and Security at School
A new report uses results from a national survey of students to discuss the experiences they have with police in their schools.
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3.0KOpinionMarginalized Youth Need Real Change in Schools, Courts, Other Systems
Black and brown students are caught in a system that does not educate or rehabilitate them. We punish them for their failure...
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2.6K► ReportsSounding the Alarm: Criminalization of Black Girls in Florida
The Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center releases a new report discussing the stark inequities facing black girls in the Florida juvenile justice...
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2.2K► ReportsInjustice in the Lower Courts: How Municipal Courts Rob America’s Youth
The Juvenile Law Center discusses the oft-overlooked role that municipal courts play in harming the prospects of American youth through unnecessary incarcerations...
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2.4K► ReportsRacial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
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3.8KOpinionBehavioral Challenges Can Push Youth With Disabilities Into School-to-Prison Pipeline
Who are youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? The population of youth with IDD is vast. In 2018-19, the number of...
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2.6K► ReportsHuman Rights Protections for Children in the U.S. Justice System – 2020 National State Ratings Report
Human Rights for Kids takes a comprehensive look at the basic legal framework protecting the rights of justice-involved youth across the country...
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2.3KNewsMacon’s School-justice Partnership Vulnerable To Pandemic Effects, Change In Leadership
Bibb County District Attorney David Cooke first heard about school-justice partnerships five years ago on the other side of the country, at...
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1.8K► ReportsYouth Justice Under the Coronavirus: Linking Public Health Protections with the Movement for Youth Decarceration
A new report from the Sentencing Project discusses how the juvenile justice system has responded to COVID-19 and makes a number of...
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1.8K► ReportsRethinking the Role of the Juvenile Justice System: Improving Youth’s School Attendance and Educational Outcomes
This new brief from the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center discusses findings from an unprecedented research study on the impact...
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2.1K► ReportsThe Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System
A new report analyzes racial and ethnic data at state-level youth justice agencies, documenting how inconsistent data categories and reporting result in...
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3.1K► ReportsEvaluating the Implementation of Raise the Age in New York City
The Youth Justice Research Collaborative releases a policy brief outlining how Raise the Age has been implemented in NYC since being signed...
