All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

Analysis: 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...

juvenile court: stone entrance to juvenile court building with flowers in front

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With homicide the No. 1 cause, formerly incarcerated Ohio juveniles’ death rate was six to nine times higher than that of other youth

Death rates were 5.9 times higher for previously incarcerated 11- to 21-year-olds in Ohio than in that state’s general population of youth...

video shows foster teen death in custody: screenshot from surveillance video showing three figures in struggle

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Video shows struggle before foster teen’s death in custody

Surveillance video shows a Black 17-year-old struggling with staff at a Wichita juvenile center last fall before he died after he was...

guide to reduce youth gun and gang/group violence: photo of city skyline in background and communities in foreground on a partly-cloudy day

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A research-based practice guide to reduce youth gun and gang/group violence

The Urban Institute releases a new, research-based guide to help communities reduce youth and gang violence.

Judge Davenport ousted: Middle-aged white woman with blonde bobbed hair wearing white blouse with black judges' robe sits at podium with microphone in front of dark wood bookcases

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New bill seeks to remove Tennessee judge who illegally jailed children

Since 2000, Judge Donna Scott Davenport has overseen the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, where the county jailed kids in 48%...

Juvenile detention medicale: White man in white lab coat stansds in dark roon reviewing a large wall lightbox with numerous x-rays on it

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Upcoming study aims to gauge prevalence and impact of traumatic brain injury on juveniles in detention

Traumatic brain injury among juvenile offenders will be assessed as part of a three-year research project that’s slated to enroll the first...

COVID-19 in juvenile facilities: worker with packaged masks for distribution

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As COVID-19 lingers, some juveniles facilities rate better than others in health safety

So far, juvenile facilities — 789 of the 1,510 nationwide are detention centers or long-term secure facilities, the remainder are group homes,...

Sentencing reform: Michael Brown, brown-haired man with heavily tattooed arms in navy prison uniform sits with arms on knees and clasped hands in room with telephone cubbies along back wall

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New Mexico court reiterates need for sentencing reform in granting parole to juvenile lifer

Michael Brown, who was expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars, had been serving one of the state’s longest...

Juvenile diversion and probation: Closeup of two feet wearing white tennis shoes and black socks with an ankle monitor on left ankle

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Q&A: Long Island diversion court’s revamp seeks collaboration among trauma-focused child welfare and juvenile agencies and youths’ families

Launched in summer 2021 as an expansion of the incarceration-diversion program, Long Island, N.Y.'s ConcepTS also stands for “collaboration, oversight, nurturing, community,...

Henry Montgomery is free: laughing older black man with glasses, fasemask and headphones

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Henry Montgomery, at center of juvenile life debate, is free

The Louisiana inmate whose Supreme Court case was instrumental in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life...

conditions in California's division of juvenile justice: juvenile detention facility eating tables and overlook

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On the brink: Conditions in California’s Division of Juvenile Justice remain bleak as closure nears

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) releases a new report discussing the poor conditions and practices that still persist in...

cities and youth in violence: mayor in suit poses next to Rockford sign

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With windfall, city tries to reach kids trapped in violence

After a pandemic year when the violent crime rate in Illinois' fifth-largest city soared along with much of the rest of the...

Black juvenile detention Tennessee: Black and white illustration of 3 young children holding hands walking surrounded by text quotes form story and geometric forms

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Black children were jailed for a crime that doesn’t exist. Almost nothing happened to the adults in charge.

Among cases referred to juvenile court, the statewide average in Tennessee for how often children were locked up was 5%. In Rutherford...

New Mexico jail: Michael Brown portrait with short light brown hair and beard smiles into camera sitting in turquoise plastic chair in prisoner visiting room wearing navy blue prison uniform with heavily black tatooed arms on lap and fingers interlaced.

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Behind bars since age 16, juvenile lifer watches New Mexico struggle over sentencing reform

Michael is one of dozens of people in New Mexico who received what juvenile justice reformists call “de-facto life sentences” — sentences...

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New law gives juvenile offenders in Washington state same rights to a lawyer that adults have

Defendants who are 18 years old and younger will have the same access to legal counsel as adults in Washington, starting next...

Juvenile diversion: Person wearing black baseball cap and black vest with patch reading PROBATION in yellow letters on backrowd of people walking on sidewalk

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Report: Juveniles in pioneering San Francisco detention diversion project were less likely to re-offend than youths on probation

Juvenile offenders participating in a 30-year-old project diverting youth from detention to community-based programs were less likely to cycle back into incarceration...

Student punishment: young girl leans against wall alone in school hallway

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Opinion

Preventing needless punishments, including student arrests, demands new approaches as classes resume

A June 2021 report from the U.S. Department of Education found that, from the 2015-16 through 2017-18 school years, there was a...

A school district added its name to police car for officers assigned to its schools,

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Amid nationwide debate about police in schools, a few districts recently disbanded those units

For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School...

Helianis Quijada Salazar and Jasmine Jones stand inside the offices of JustUs, a Brooklyn, N.Y. projected aimed at diverting justice-involved girls and queer youth from juvenile detention facilities and into community programs.

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A New York City detention-diversion project is reserved for girls and queer youth

Since it launched in January, 25 youth have enrolled in a three-year pilot project that pays girls and queer youth involved in...

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