For the first time in more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Justice is attempting to gather data about the least-known...
Happy Halloween to all! Hope everyone gets in the spirit. Yours truly will be haunting around town in this get-up. ***As everyone...
Quick one today, as we are hard at work preparing the November/December issue of Youth Today. The upcoming issue includes a look...
California judge and former prosecutor Kurt Kumli was the only name that had reached JJ Today from the recent round of interviews...
***Members of Congress are home campaigning, so, of course, no news out of Washington on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act....
History of Street Gangs in the United States National Gang Center Bulletin This report provides a historical summary of the many factors...
By Nancy Gannon Hornberger and Gina E. Wood Unfairness plagues our nation’s juvenile justice systems. Shocking racial inequities in juvenile justice are...
JJ Today is back home in Washington, D.C., fresh off a trip to the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Conference in Kansas City (click...
City of Fountains (Kansas City)– The morning of day two always brings one of the more fiery speeches of the Annie E....
Kansas City – Greetings from the City of Fountains! As usual, JJ Today is at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-Site conference...
Kansas City – Greetings from the City of Fountains! As usual, JJ Today is at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-Site conference...
City of Fountains (Kansas City)– The morning of day two always brings one of the more fiery speeches of the Annie E....
Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile FacilityJerome GoldSeven Stories Press344 pages.. People often ask novelist and poet Jerome Gold, a...
A ground-breaking, year-long investigation by Youth Today has uncovered ample evidence that many youths incarcerated in American juvenile facilities are getting potent...
***As noted in last week’s Notes, the October issue of Youth Today includes “Psych Meds Behind Bars,” a look at what is...
***The Office of Justice Programs has released its 2010 grants over the past few weeks; the agency has until Oct. 1 to...
***First, a quick teaser for “Psych Meds Behind Bars,” a major story coming out in the October edition of Youth Today, which...
Allegations that workers used physical and chemical restraints on residents at two Boys Town programs near its campus headquarters in Omaha, Neb.,...
***The Office of Justice Programs started to release announcements of its grants this week, and will continue to announce more until Oct....
By Patrick Boyle and John Kelly Those who have worked with Mary Mentaberry, executive director of the National Council of Juvenile and...