I was 18 years old when I was arrested and sent to jail. But the real hell of my life to come...
When most people think of gangs and the criminal activity often associated with them problems of the inner-city may come to mind...
State legislatures across the United States have been busy this year with youth and juvenile justice-related legislation. While there have been some...
Juvenile sex offenders in Ohio will no longer be required to register as sex offenders for life, the state’s Supreme Court ruled...
I attended the recent annual conference of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) to give the closing plenary...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that the Justice Department will expand to 10 – from six –...
On a football-field-sized stretch of land beside the Walton County Jail in tiny Monroe, Ga., a tractor tiller turned weed-choked rows of...
Last August, more than 20 families were forced to gather at the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha for an exercise in mass...
***There are 331 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and the president has still not nominated someone to...
***There are 338 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and the president has still not nominated someone to...
President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget proposal today, which calls for $3.8 trillion in spending and projects a $901 billion deficit...
***There are 345 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and the president has still not nominated someone to...
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen-year-old Juan Carlos Amezcua was just five minutes late for school, and already at the corner by Theodore Roosevelt High...
***Hope everyone who cares enjoys the Super Bowl. True story: JJ Today grew up equidistant from the Giants and Patriots, but attached...
*** There are 368 days left in Obama’s first term, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator of the...
President Barack Obama delivered his third State of the Union speech last night, an hour-long oratory that focused mostly on success in...
A New Mexico federal court judge recently received a complaint citing the following facts: a 13-year-old boy repeatedly belched in class. While...
The Notes is back from hibernation! Hope all of the readers are having a lovely 2012 so far. Our hearts go out...
Melodee Hanes has replaced Jeff Slowikowski as acting administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, reaffirming what many already...
Laurie Robinson, the assistant attorney general for the division of the Justice Department that oversees juvenile justice, announced in a message to...