All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teen Sex Offender Law Struck Down

  With a court ruling last month, Nevada could be paving the way for challenges to juvenile sex offender laws around the country....

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  Youth Courts: An Empirical Update and Analysis of Future Organizational and Research Needs

  Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence Third in a series of reports funded by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Juvenile Justice Connection

  http://community.nicic.org/blogs/juvenilejustice The U.S. Justice Department’s National Institute of Corrections recently launched this blog in an effort to connect juvenile justice professionals. The...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  More Funds for Juvenile Justice Reform

  Low-income juvenile offenders always need good legal representation but often have trouble getting it. That might soon change in at least four...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  A Friend at Justice

  Flores: Says agency followed proper procedures. The odds didn’t look good for the Best Friends Foundation when it applied for a competitive...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Medicaid’s Buried Treasure for Juvenile Justice

  The Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center in New Mexico is but a speck on the map of the nation’s juvenile justice system....

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  13,000 Abused in Detention

  An investigation by The Associated Press uncovered more than 13,000 claims of abuse reported to juvenile correction centers nationwide from 2004 to...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Right to Lawyer Expanded

  A federal judge has expanded the right of adjudicated youth to have an attorney. California must appoint an attorney to each parolee...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Congress Probes Justice Grants

  A congressional committee last month launched an investigation into whether the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) violated its...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Troubled Life

  Baltimore Sun When 15-year-old Farron Tates was convicted of selling drugs after his fifth arrest in January, he was released into the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Home-Grown Success

  Wolner: “We’ve had some pretty powerful people that have gotten behind it.” Photo: Barron County Restorative Justice Program Location, location, location. Is...

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  New Funds to Help Offenders Start Over

  If you provide mentoring, substance abuse counseling or other services to help incarcerated juveniles re-enter society, you might soon be eligible for...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Turmoil of the Month in Texas

  Youth Today could almost run a monthly column about the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), the scandal-plagued network of 22 youth prisons that...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Advocates Seek to Reform JJDP Act

  Federal juvenile justice reauthorization should for the first time encourage states to address conditions in youth jails and residential facilities, in light...

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  Youthful Offender Project

  YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Reclaiming Futures Seeks to Expand

  The Reclaiming Futures initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation has been successfully working to reform systems of care for juvenile...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Reform Progress and Setbacks

  With juvenile justice reforms and investigations going on around the country, it’s difficult to keep track of all the innovations, achievements and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Juvenile System Tries not to Lock ’Em Up, Toss Key

  Dayton (Ohio) Daily News Two Montgomery County judges are changing the philosophy of their juvenile justice system from one focused on incarceration...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Campaign for Youth Justice

  Washington, D.C.www.campaignforyouthjustice.org Objective: To end the practice of trying youth as adults. In a Nutshell: The campaign teams with national, state and...

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  School or the Streets: Crime and California’s Dropout Crisis

  Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, California Researchers say that high school dropouts in California are three-and-a-half times as likely as high school...