Youth Today
All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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1.3KOpinionTeen shooters should be judged as teens, not adults
Few among us are oblivious to the suffering that results from certain crimes committed by youthful offenders. As researchers and citizens, we...
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1.2KFrom the BureausThere’s litigation and innovation involving LGBTQ juveniles, a disproportionately larger group
Tailor-made services are important for many justice-involved LGBTQ youth and young adults their advocates contend, because those individuals’ encounters with law enforcement,...
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768NewsIn historic shift, far fewer teens face adult US courts
A significant shift away from the "get tough" philosophy of the 1980s and '90s for youth offenders, has resulted in far fewer...
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1.8KNewsNew Mexico’s marijuana record expungement lags behind legalization
Thomas Wescott, 24, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, said he has been rejected by multiple employers due to a six-year-old conviction for...
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1.1K► ReportsJJIE Resource Hub: Federal funds to slash student suspensions; trying adults as children; and other topics
Unspent American Rescue Plan funds to lower the number of students who wind up in the juvenile justice system. The impact of...
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494GrantsJustice-involved LGBTQ+ youth support center grant
GRANT FOCUS: LGBTQ+ Youth, Justice-Involved Youth, Juvenile Justice, Two-Spirit Youth | Amount: Up to $1,000,000 | Deadline: June 8, 2022
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1.3KOpinionTeen-run courts dispense justice, launch legal careers
For more than 40 years, teen courts across the 50 states have proven their success at letting high school students — serving...
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1.1KNewsTask force finds inconsistencies in police story of detained teen’s death
A community task force reviewing the death of a Black teenager who was restrained for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas...
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957GrantsNational juvenile justice data analysis program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Detention/Incarceration, Juvenile Offenders, Data, Research | Amount: Up to $2,400,000 | Deadline: May 9, 2022
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2.6KNewsAnalysis: Former juvenile lifers cite strengths and weaknesses of reentry preparation
Almost all of 112 Philadelphians who have been released from lifetime prison sentences said they participated in some form of prison programming,...
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2.3KOpinionApprenticeships should be part of programming for juvenile offenders
One of the strongest elements of our diversion agreements was a structured community service program. The most successful programs treated juvenile referrals...
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1.3K► ReportsToo many locked doors: The scope of youth confinement is vastly understated
A new report from The Sentencing Project discusses how youth incarceration rates across the country are being systemically undercounted and what the...
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2.1KNewsShackles and Solitary: Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup
Scrambling to respond to a wave of violence and escapes from other juvenile detention facilities, Louisiana state officials quietly opened the high-security...
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6.3KFrom the BureausA gang-banger since 8th grade, former Blood sets a new course with a former prosecutor’s help
There is no recent official count of how many individuals have departed gang life. In 2012, the most recent year that the...
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2.1KFrom the BureausQ&A: Exalt’s Gisele Castro on the importance of New York’s “raise the age” law
Exalt is a nonprofit in New York City. Giselle Castro talks about Exalt's work and their "raise the age" efforts. They work...
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2.1KNewsNew Mexico to create new legal aid office for child welfare cases
Child welfare professionals in New Mexico are applauding passage of a bill they say will improve legal representation for youth and families...
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996NewsSouth Carolina governor names new chief of juvenile justice agency
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Tuesday that he is appointing an attorney who has temporarily steered the state's struggling Department of...
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1.3KNewsNew Mexico lawmakers, citing political frustrations, pull juvenile justice reform bill
Proposed reforms to New Mexico’s juvenile sentencing rules failed to become law for a second year in a row after the bill’s...
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5.3KNewsLawmakers, federal investigators target teen facilities billed as therapeutic but accused of abuse
Separate investigations by the federal Government Accountability Office and Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general that were launched in 2021,...
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1.3KNewsAnalysis: A fraction of Houston area’s justice-involved youth accounted for the bulk of repeat-offenders
The analysis included 42,000 youth who were aged 12 through 16 at the time of that first contact with the system in...
