Youth Today
All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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The Costs of Confinement: Why Good Juvenile Justice Policies Make Good Fiscal Sense
Justice Policy Institute (JPI) States facing budget shortfalls could save millions of dollars while improving public safety by investing in community-based...
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Weekly Notes: OJJDP Speeding Up Publishing; JDAI Coming to Mississippi; Exec Job Open at YouthBuild; and more
***Last year, JJ Today reported that the turnaround of data at OJJDP had become molasses-slow, lessening the value of the information. Under...
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Juvenile Arrests 2007
There were not a whole lot of surprises or noteworthy changes in this report. Homicide/manslaughter arrests ticked up 3 percent, and robbery...
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Weekly Notes: Latino Youth in the System; Luzerne Update; Banning the Box in Minnesota; and more
***The Campaign for Youth Justice and the National Council of La Raza have released a new policy brief on Latino youth and...
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News
Robinson Nominated to Lead OJP
Is This Good News for Schiraldi Supporters? Check out the JuvenileJusticeToday blog.
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Funding News of the Week: William “JJ” Shakespeare
Youth involved in the juvenile justice system are a target audience for recently awarded grants. Check out the money blog.
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News
Facilities Close, Construction Stagnates …
The recession appears to be stopping juvenile facility building in its tracks, and even expediting the closure of existing buildings. Except in...
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America’s Invisible Children
The front (intake and court proceedings) and side (alternatives to incarceration) of the JJ system need work when it comes to Latino...
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Robinson Nominated to Lead OJP; Good News for Schiraldi Supporters?
The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era assistant attorney general for...
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Facilities Close, Construction Stagnates – Except in a State That Needs Closure and Stagnation?
The recession appears to be stopping juvenile facility building in its tracks, and even expediting the closure of existing buildings. Except in...
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Closing California’s Division of Juvenile Facilities
The study calls for closure of the entire Division of Juvenile Facilities (DJF), proposing that its enormous budget could be better spent...
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First Tee’s Moneyball Keeps Rolling
One week after the Justice Department cited a federal grant to The First Tee golf program as an example of ethically questionable...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Weekly Notes: Forget About 2009 Demo Grants at OJJDP; Obama’s 2010 JJ Budget; North Carolina May Join the Rest of Country; and more
***The biggest JJ news of the week was certainly the U.S. Supreme Court deciding to consider the constitutionality of life without parole...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Obama Budget Cuts Some Youth Programs, Grows Others
President Barack Obama released a proposed 2010 budget Thursday that would eliminate several funding streams for youth programs, including $82 million in juvenile...
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More on Supreme Court’s LWOP Cases
As Youth Today and myriad other news sources reported earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases that may...
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News
Supreme Court to Hear Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Cases
The Supreme Court agreed today to hear two Florida cases that challenge the legality of sentencing minors to life in prison without...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
OJJDP Grants Get Claimed Before You Apply
The U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention last month issued a solicitation for field-initiated demonstration programs, which at first...
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Weekly Notes: Money for Mentoring; Chicago Youth and Reentry; Shakespeare for Juveniles…and more
***The Bureau of Justice Assistance is accepting proposals on mentoring money provided through the Second Chance Act (signed by former President George...
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News
Teen Curfew Laws Challenged
New York’s highest court heard arguments April 28 on a challenge to the city of Rochester’s juvenile curfew, the first such case...
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OIG Report Finds Flores Violated Ethics Rules
Note: This story has been corrected Federal investigators have found that J. Robert Flores violated ethics rules and used questionable grant making...
