After scores of columns speculating on who might run the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for President Barack Obama, the...
Compelling testimony at today’s hearing about girls in the juvenile justice system was nearly overshadowed by Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. John Conyers’...
A very quick, late Friday notes: We’re hard at work on a story for the November issue of Youth Today about a...
When it comes to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act reauthorization, the Senate has clearly carried the water. Senate Majority Leader...
***Various federal agencies released JJ-related grants this week, but one grant from the Department of Education made headlines: a $500,000 grant to...
A new report chronicling the whereabouts of past high school dropouts shows that all dropouts, and particularly African-Americans, are far more likely...
The confirmation hearing for Laurie Robinson, Obama’s nominee to serve as the assistant attorney general for justice programs, was short and sweet....
***The void of permanent leadership for federal juvenile justice may soon be filled. Laurie Robinson, Obama’s nominee to head up the Office...
The Office of Juvenile has announced all of its fiscal 2009 grants, all of which are available by connecting to this pdf...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention made the much-anticipated announcement of its national mentoring grant winners last month. The...
State juvenile justice leaders find staffers at the federal juvenile justice office helpful, though slow to respond at times, and bemoan...
Most of the former administrators of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) plan to gather in Washington next...
***Edgar Cahn is busy crafting a strategy to compel JJ systems, using the threat of litigation, to address racial disparities in their...
When he walked into Annie E. Casey Foundation’s old headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., in 1990, Doug Nelson thought he was there to...
Federal Bureau of Investigation The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report shows slight declines in violent and property crimes from 2007...
***The fanfare around the Missouri approach to working with juveniles in secure facilities – small community facilities broken into groups of youth,...
Mark your calendars for Monday, Nov. 9. That is the day the U.S. Supreme Court has set aside to hear oral arguments...
A memo obtained by JJ Today indicates that despite missing out on OJJDP’s Recovery Act and announced 2009 funds for national mentoring...
One of the hopefuls for the OJJDP top job whose candidacy heated up over the summer was Miami-Dade County JJ boss Wansley...
State juvenile justice leaders find staff at the federal juvenile justice office helpful, though slow to respond at times, and the officials...