Youth Today
All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Young Inmates Doing Thyme in the Prison Garden
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...
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Nebraska’s big-government conservatives criminalize being home sick from school
Last August, more than 20 families were forced to gather at the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha for an exercise in mass...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: New grants doled out by Public Welfare, MacArthur; research on school crime; and more
***There are 331 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and the president has still not nominated someone to...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: Obama normalizes JJ budget for 2013; Report on Arkansas reform; and more
***There are 338 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and the president has still not nominated someone to...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
A Look at Youth-Related Spending in Obama’s 2013 Budget (Updated 2/14)
President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget proposal today, which calls for $3.8 trillion in spending and projects a $901 billion deficit...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: On legacies, desistance and drugs
***There are 345 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and the president has still not nominated someone to...
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News
Juvenile Judge Tries to Alter Failed Policy with ‘Rationality’
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen-year-old Juan Carlos Amezcua was just five minutes late for school, and already at the corner by Theodore Roosevelt High...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: PREA grants available, Walsh Act legislation, and next week’s council meeting
***Hope everyone who cares enjoys the Super Bowl. True story: JJ Today grew up equidistant from the Giants and Patriots, but attached...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: The MacArth-nership; training program on services for crossover youth
*** There are 368 days left in Obama’s first term, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator of the...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
State of the Union Speech Touches on DREAM Act, Dropout Laws and Job Training
President Barack Obama delivered his third State of the Union speech last night, an hour-long oratory that focused mostly on success in...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The Need for Developmental Competence for Adults working with Youth
A New Mexico federal court judge recently received a complaint citing the following facts: a 13-year-old boy repeatedly belched in class. While...
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Weekly Notes: Hanes takes the helm; states facing big changes; and more
The Notes is back from hibernation! Hope all of the readers are having a lovely 2012 so far. Our hearts go out...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Melodee Hanes Named Acting Administrator of OJJDP
Melodee Hanes has replaced Jeff Slowikowski as acting administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, reaffirming what many already...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Laurie Robinson Leaving the Obama Administration in February
Laurie Robinson, the assistant attorney general for the division of the Justice Department that oversees juvenile justice, announced in a message to...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: Date set in LWOP case; Texas job loses one candidate, gains another; and more
Happy holidays and Happy New Year to all our readers. Here is hoping that wherever they are, and whatever they did, juvenile...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Federal Youth Budget 2012
Agency/Program 2009 Enacted 2012 Enacted Agriculture Child Nutrition Programs $15 b $18.2 b Women, Infants & Children Program $6.9...
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The Closing of the Massachusetts Reform Schools and the Legacy of Jerome Miller
On January 15, 1972, a caravan of 100 cars drove onto the grounds of the Lyman Reform School in Westborough, Massachusetts and...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Learning from Massachusetts’ Juvenile Justice Experiment
In 1971, Massachusetts juvenile justice boss Jerry Miller and his lead staffer, Tom Jeffers, sat down in a Boston pub and decided...
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Research
Weekly Notes: Illinois juvenile justice commission sells report well; Walsh Act update; and more
***As we write, Congress is playing a lively game of partisan chicken over a deal to fund the government for fiscal 2012...
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News
Illinois Probe Finds Rushed, Unmeasured Process for Juvenile Release, Reentry and Parole
Illinois has seen significant changes to the front-end of its juvenile justice system, but its system of releasing and assisting incarcerated juveniles...
