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Special Report: OJJDP Grant Making Scandal

Youth Today’s ongoing coverage of questionable grant making by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Detention and Delinquency Prevention. Join the Discussion about OJJDP Bill...

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Bill Would Force Action at OJJDP

Yet another congressional committee is demanding answers and changes regarding how the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awards grants....

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Senate Launches Probe of Juvenile Justice

A U.S. Senate committee today joined the investigation into whether the federal juvenile justice office awarded competitive grants based on political favoritism...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Medicaid Rule Changes Delayed

Medicaid rules that would slash funds spent on youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have been delayed because of...

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House Passes Bill to Monitor Residential Facilities

By Grace Lavigne A congressional bill that began as an attempt to regulate privately run residential programs for troubled adolescents has expanded...

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Justice Official Fired; Bypassed Grant Deadlines

A federal juvenile justice official who was fired on June 24 had helped selected organizations apply for Justice Department grants past the...

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JJDPA Reauthorization Introduced

A Senate bill introduced in late June offers no promises, but could dramatically increase funding for juvenile justice and allow more of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

OJJDP Chief Flores Testifies Before Waxman’s Panel

As part of Youth Today‘s ongoing coverage of grant-making abnormalities at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), associate editor...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

In Defense of Flores

J. Robert Flores calmly sat before a congressional committee yesterday and steadfastly defended himself against accusations from his own staff that he...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

The Case Against Flores

The head of the nation’s juvenile justice office and his chief of staff helped favored organizations win competitive grants, pressured staffers to...

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Justice Department Investigates Travel by Flores

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether the administrator of its juvenile justice office used government funds to take trips that were...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

At Justice, 84th Place Wins

When it comes time to decide who gets millions of dollars in grants, the head of the federal juvenile justice agency doesn’t...

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Judges’ Group Fights ‘Firestorm’

Mentaberry: “We disagreed with the government.” When staffers at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges filled out timesheets to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Union Pushed Aside for Reform

A federal judge has let officials at Chicago’s juvenile detention center ignore part of a union contract in order to help them...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop

Free Minds draws in youth convicted as adults (like Delonte, above) with book discussions and writing exercises … Washington, D.C.(202) 468-4809http://www.freemindsbookclub.org Objective:...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Boot Camp

Residential CARETodd StrasserSimon & Schuster238 pages. $15.99. Talk about fiction ripped from the news pages: Fifteen-year-old Garrett can’t believe that his parents...

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