After 36 years, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) as we know it is facing a significant change that fundamentally...
President Barack Obama released his 2012 budget today, which would fund most youth-focused programs and agencies at equal or greater levels to...
It appears from details of the budget plan that President Barack Obama is proposing to revamp significantly a mainstay of the federal...
Late Friday, the House Appropriations Committee released its proposed continuing resolution bill for fiscal 2011 spending, which includes plans to eliminate completely...
***President Barack Obama’s budget will be the major domestic headline early next week. The proposal will be released on Monday. In a...
A Government Accountability Office report on federally funded employment and training programs, more than half of which serve youth, shows the roughly...
Critics of the controversial “scared straight” approach had feared that the popular new television show about the strategy might spark a proliferation...
***Meetings on the Defending Childhood initiative took place this week among senior Justice officials and the eight sites selected to conduct demonstration...
On Wednesday, we ran the first part of Youth Today’s interview with former juvenile judge Irene Sullivan, author of the recently released...
Yesterday, Youth Today printed the first half of our interview with Irene Sullivan, a former Florida juvenile judge and author of the...
In 1998, Irene Sullivan took a seat on the Florida Circuit Court’s Unified Family Court in Pinellas County after two decades in...
***The Justice Department issued proposed rules and standards this week for the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which was passed in 2003 to...
Supporters and families of ex-offenders in Minnesota will use an organized advocacy campaign today in part to push for more accuracyin public...
Note: This story was corrected on Saturday, Jan. 22. The original article incorrectly stated the Illinois’ juvenile justice system had already merged...
***Yesterday, we covered structural changes to a number of the independent state JJ agencies over the past three years. Another big change...
***Episode one of the A&E documentary “Beyond Scared Straight” is in the books. The seven-episode series will follow juveniles and at-risk youths...
Supporters and critics of “scared straight” programs – which generally entail youths visiting prisons and prisoners in hopes that the experience will...
Hope everyone out there in juvenile justice land had a wonderful start to 2011! Rumors of Weekly Notes’ demise have been greatly...
Juvenile justice advocates and service providers had lofty expectations for the Obama administration and the 111th Congress. But the U.S. Supreme Court...
We might be reading the tea leaves too much here, but it seems that multiple factors may align to spur an investment...