Note: This story was updated on July 20 The reform of Washington, D.C.’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services — which has garnered...
News ***Nice resource here from the National Juvenile Justice Network on using the state budget crunch to one’s advantage as an advocate...
***A bit of federal news: The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is soliciting public comments and feedback on the...
This groundbreaking book by lawyer, advocate and scholar Michelle Alexander — in a new paperback edition with a foreword by Cornel West — reframes...
Judge David Bell, the former chief juvenile judge of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court in Louisiana and a prominent participant in a...
NEWS *** The Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice published its Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007 online last week, and also released four...
The Justice Department proposed new rules this summer that would make it optional for states to include most juvenile sex offenders on...
Florida became the third state to gain substantial compliance with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, part of the larger Adam...
Hope everyone’s summer is going swimmingly, pun intended! Notes has been on hiatus while Youth Today wraps up the final print edition...
Vicki Spriggs, executive director of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, has withdrawn from consideration for the top job at the Justice Department’s...
***On the surface, all is quiet on the JJ front in the nation’s capital. No news on a nominee to lead OJJDP,...
About 15 states now have some sort of child advocacy office, an entity charged with monitoring the conditions and/or outcomes of youths...
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Youths who go through both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems often...
Joe Sullivan: Among the inmates who must be given a “meaningful opportunity” for release after the Supreme Court ruling in Graham...
Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice is diving into the field of predictive analytics – a tool that big business has come...
Dawn Folsom Executive DirectorProject United Alliance Fort Wayne, Ind.(260) 417-6510 Age: 22. Salary: $40,000. My Organization: Folsom began to design the...
Urban Institute This is an evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI), which since 2003 has funded 69...
This absorbing Hallmark Channel TV movie reveals the 1980s origins of the Safe Harbor Boys Home in Jacksonville, Fla. Doug and...
***A couple of new solicitations from OJJDP: Group Mentoring Research and Evaluation Program: To evaluate the effectiveness of group mentoring programs at...
This article was corrected on May 27 Sources close to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention say three people are...