Note: This story was updated May 18 The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today that life without parole for juveniles not involved in...
Of course, the one time we get the Weekly Notes done early, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention adds really...
***Luzerne Update! A brief filed this week by U.S. attorneys in the case against disgraced judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella articulates...
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert believes that shooting or killing someone has become an all-too rational reaction to disrespect among young...
The Family and Youth Services Bureau needs to improve the application process used in awarding grants to service providers for runaway and...
The Justice Department should not require states to use medical staff members in detention and residential facilities to question juveniles about abusive...
Big businesses have come to rely on a budding technology called predictive analytics to help them guess the likely future actions of...
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) spoke today about reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) in an interview on Juvenile...
Note: Because little attention is being paid to this in the mainstream media, JJ Today is going to give a brief profile...
False advertising? One of COIL’s buildings holds itself out as the headquarters of Operation Safe Streets, but the project went away nearly...
Johnson: “In the beginning, I considered all of those who disagreed with me … as the enemy.” With the U.S. Supreme...
These excerpts are from Caged Birds Sing, which was written by teenagers who are committed to Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center...
The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand California’s practice of counting juvenile court convictions when applying the three strikes law to adult...
We’ve been hard at work here on a crazy cover story for the May issue of Youth Today, and a few other...
Five states and three U.S. territories were out of compliance last year with at least one of the four core requirements of...
Note: This story has been updated The House Committee on Education and Labor today held its first hearing on the reauthorization of...
The New York-based Open Society Institute announced its 2010 Soros Justice Fellows, all of whom will receive a stipend between $45,000 and...
The executive director of the National Network for Youth, which advocates for increased resources to aid homeless and runaway youth, will leave...
Note: This story was updated on April 19 The Justice Department has notified the Senate Judiciary Committee that it “strongly supports” the...
The Obama administration may not appoint new heads for the bureaus that oversee child welfare and homeless youth at the Administration for...