Youth Today

FACJJ Starts 2009 Report

Members of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ) were pretty tight-lipped about this month’s meeting in Chicago, at which its...

Status Offenders Detained: By the Numbers

The JJPDA Reauthorization bill that just made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee originally clamped down hard on the use of the...

Weed and Seed Money Available

Nonprofits and government agencies in high-crime areas should look into Weed and Seed competitive grants, which are administered by the Community Capacity...

Welcome to JJ Today!

This is the first of many updates on our new online feature, JJ Today. Something between a blog and a newsletter, our...

Research

Campie Named Director of NCJJ

Patricia Campie is the new director at the Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), a division of the National Council of...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Face Time Pays Off

Justice Under Oath: J. Robert Flores testifies last month before a House committee, saying allegations about his grant selections “are false.” Photo:...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Fired Official Bypassed Grant Deadlines

DeKonty: Actions for faith-based organizations sparked angry e-mail from a federal official. A federal juvenile justice official who was fired last month...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Parolees in California Win New Rights

In a move hailed by youth advocates as the most important change in the nation’s largest juvenile justice system in three decades,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Poetic Justice for Vermont Vandals

Frost: Get “out, out” of his house. Photo: U.S. Library of Congres Youths who think reading poetry is a form of punishment...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Ohio Commits to Change

A court-mandated reform plan for Ohio should mean more use of small, community-based programs for youth and the hiring of more staff...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Internet Gives Graffiti Vandals a Global Audience

Los Angeles Times Having their “tags,” or graffiti signatures, viewed by a few thousand commuters each day apparently isn’t enough exposure for...

New Center for Girls in Juvenile System

The Jesse Ball DuPont Fund has awarded $500,000 to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) of Oakland, Calif., to develop...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Campaign for Youth Justice

http://www.youtube.com/jjreform The Campaign for Youth Justice, which fights the incarceration of youth in adult prisons, has launched its own channel on YouTube....

News

Bill Would Ban Detention for Status Offenders

A ban on detaining juvenile status offenders and money for mental health services were added to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention...

News

Default Judgment on JJDPA

Movement of a bill to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act was stalled today by partisan tension over judicial nominees....

News

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...

News

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....

News

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...

News

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...