Youth Today
All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
-
1.3KGrantsJustice-involved and violence-impacted youth employment program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Justice-involved Youth, Youth Employment, Violence Prevention, Youth Development | Amount: Up to $4,000,000 | Deadline: Oct. 5, 2022
-
4.3K► PodcastsYouth leaving foster care, juvenile and other systems are aim of Washington housing effort
Implemented in June, HB 1905 establishes a five-year budget of over $5 million to reduce homelessness among those aforementioned groups. Washington’s Office of...
-
3.9KNewsNew documentary highlights lack of accessibility for deaf and disabled people in north central Florida justice system
Michelle Ricks said she was in prison for five years without an interpreter. Executive Producer Delbert Whetter said he believes Ricks would...
-
3.6KNewsCourt watchers urge change in Florida, which is No. 1 in prosecuting youth as adults
Since 2007, 18 states have raised to 18 the age at which a person can be criminally charged as an adult, according...
-
4.1KFrom the BureausWhat happened after Minneapolis removed police officers from schools
By September 2020, 11 new unarmed public safety support specialists, many with law enforcement-related backgrounds, were in place and on the Minneapolis...
-
2.6K► ReportsFlorida girls are arrested and locked up at higher rates than boys
Non-felony offenses accounted for two out of three arrests of juvenile girls in Florida, according to “The Justice for Girls Blueprint: The...
-
1.8K► ReportsStudy: Schooling for incarcerated youth is fragmented, inferior
Most of the 50 states have clearly designated which agencies are in charge of hiring teachers for incarcerated juveniles, creating teaching curriculum...
-
1.7K► ReportsYouth prison reform in the COVID era
Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss how three states reduced youth incarceration and implemented reforms through the trying times of the COVID...
-
1.8KOpinionTeen 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...
-
1.9KFrom 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,...
-
1.2KNewsIn 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...
-
2.4KNewsNew 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...
-
1.5K► 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...
-
829GrantsJustice-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
-
1.9KOpinionTeen-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...
-
1.7KNewsTask 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...
-
1.3KGrantsNational 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
-
3.4KNewsAnalysis: 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,...
-
3.1KOpinionApprenticeships 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...
-
1.8K► 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...
