A parent’s failure to take part in their child’s treatment and supervision plan ishurtful — the child, for the most part, is...
On August 15, 2012, when most teenagers were enjoying the last few weeks of summer vacation, 16-year-old Fernando Garibay-Benitez was shot in the head outside an apartment...
My first “live” Restorative Circle happened a few days ago, in Rochester, New York. The circle started with seven people, and it...
The Georgia Juvenile Services Association (GJSA) recently wrapped its 2012 Training Summit in Savannah, Ga., an annual chance for juvenile court workers...
With President Barack Obama’s mid-June executive order that protected certainchildren of illegal immigrants from deportation, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that...
With the publication of Michelle Alexander’s provocative book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, our attention has...
I remember the first time I saw a prisoner dying from medical neglect. He lived in the dorm with me, which was...
The federal office responsible for supporting juvenile justice programs around the country is in the process of reorganizing its internal structure, with...
A lot of people complain about youth today, but few do anything about it. That isn’t a criticism, but an observation. Kids...
Recently, the National Conference of State Legislators published Trends in Juvenile Justice State Legislation 2001-2011, a decade-long analysis of changes that have...
I couldn’t hide my disappointment. There she was on the program, Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler, the keynote speaker. What better person to...
Sometimes it seems there is an inherent conflict of interest between those who work in the field of juvenile justice and their...
“You don’t care about the victims. All you care about are those kids.” It was a comment I’ve heard in one form...
In most states, media outlets are prevented from reporting the names and some details in juvenile cases. This practice is born of...
“There’s a marvelous program,” said child welfare attorney Leslie Stewart. A county-employed psychologist roams an elementary school in a neighborhood beset by...
We sat in blue plastic school desks. The room was all white, with gray metal cabinets. It was comfortably air conditioned, which...
Just after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated some 2,400 life sentences given to juveniles nationwide, Iowa’s governor responded with commuting the 38...
A disproportionate number of LGBT teens are represented in the nation’s juvenile justice system, possibly making up as much as 15 percent...
Youth advocates are ringing the alarm bells at Congress’s proposed levels of funding for state programs that would prevent young people from...