All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

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  From Corrections to Community

  The study examines youths who exited Illinois correctional facilities between 1996 and 2004 (a total of 13,511 exits over those years). There...

• Weekly Notes: OJJDP Funding; Tuba Man’s JJ Impact in Washington; Job Opening at Berkeley; and more

  **A couple of funding notices from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. First, an OJJDP grant that seems reasonably open...

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  Supporting Youth in Transition to Adulthood

  The report focuses particularly on “crossover youth,” who are known to the child welfare agency and have spent time in juvenile custody...

• Q&A: Shakti Belway, J.D., Author of Bearing Witness

  Earlier this month, we mentioned a report about Baltimore done by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) entitled Bearing Witness, which jumped out...

• Gang Survey Released; Peer Reviewers Sought by OJJDP; Misdemeanor Arrests in Santa Clara; and more

  Quick one today, we’re hard at work on some Youth Today stories (including one about Goodwill that should be of great interest...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  OJJDP Demonstration Grant RFP: Don’t Bother?

  The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention issued its solicitation for field-initiated demonstration programs, a piece of paper that at first...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Funds Available at SAMHSA, OJJDP; Young Teens Sentenced to Die in Prison; New Boss at ETA; and more

  A few federal funding notices and some interesting stories on the state level this week: ***The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• JJ Today on Twitter

  Readers can now follow JJ Today on Twitter, where we will immediately send out a quick update every time a new piece...

• Two More names for OJJDP Administrator

  Corrected April 22 JJ Today has heard two more names thrown around for the top job at the Office of Juvenile Justice...

• Weekly Notes: Great Piece by JPI; Tribal Program Money Available; Luzerne Developments; and more

  ***It isn’t completely focused on juvenile offenders, but the piece on crime and Baltimore put out by the Justice Policy Institute this...

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  Bearing Witness

  This piece blends personal accounts with data and recommendations, which combined produce a piece that serves both as an indictment, and a...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Help Decide Who Gets Stimulus Grants

  Several federal agencies are looking for peer and grant reviewers to help with the increased volume of solicitations for the stimulus funds....

• The Luzerne Scandal: More Questions for the Juvenile Justice Field

  There’s so much to say about the judges’ scandal in Luzerne, Pa. Our front-page story in April focused on the most telling...

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  Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform, 2007-2008

  National Juvenile Justice Network The United States imprisons more youths than any country in the world. This report highlights state-level juvenile justice...

• News

  Zero Tolerance Breeds Zero Justice

  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A poem on the wall of PA Child Care, a privately owned juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Juvenile Justice Stimulus Grants Announced

  The Department of Justice has announced several juvenile-related grants under the stimulus bill, including the following. For information about how to apply...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Drug Court Funding; JJDPA Reintroduced; Missouri Model Profiled in NYT; and More

  Apologies for the absence of Weekly Notes for the past couple weeks. JJ Today has been hard at work on a story...

• New Contender for OJJDP Job?

  Another contender for the top spot at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has emerged of late: Child Welfare...

• OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money (Updated)

  The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...

• OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money

  The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...