Released today, the Sentencing Project’s “Diversion: A Hidden Key to Combating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice,” analyzes nationwide data. Citing,...
Since 2007, 18 states have raised to 18 the age at which a person can be criminally charged as an adult, according...
Since it launched in January, 25 youth have enrolled in a three-year pilot project that pays girls and queer youth involved in...
Some among the 3,614 formerly incarcerated persons living in city shelters in 2019, as one example, spent stints in city jails for...
A project aiming to grant more Black and brown youth entry to community-based programs that are an alternative to juvenile incarceration will...
Unless accused of criminally negligent homicide, no child younger than 12 could be legally arrested, detained or brought before a judge, according...
During the rollercoaster ride of a pandemic, it was Maxene Foster’s job to help make sure that cash-strapped Bronx residents got fed,...
The new law is retroactive. It allows persons to have prior marijuana-related convictions for which, under the new rules, they would not...
“Move the bodies.” That’s what a defense lawyer recently overheard an employee in juvenile court say, as if the young people being...