If you are 8 years old and you have received 1,000 spankings since you were old enough to start counting them, what does that mean? It could mean yo...
Rob Warden | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
The confession of an eight-year-old boy to the murder of his father and another man last week in St. Johns, Arizona, is shocking. It also may be false.
Jeanne Woodford | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics
Prop. 5 starts with youth. It launches the state's first system offering drug treatment for at-risk youth. Stop addiction early, and we reduce crime.
Alan Miller | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
Britain is currently consumed with an extremely unhealthy obsession with knife crime. While many of the teens readily confess to 'not really knowing what is going on', so too do the police.
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
This reliance on mass incarceration of children is not only cruel and counterproductive, it's extremely costly to taxpayers. And it damages our economy by sapping so much potential from our youth.
Carol Chodroff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Our nation's juvenile justice policies are replete with contradictions between practices proven to prevent crime, and punitive laws politicians promote to get elected.
Paul Peete | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
Hope for our troubled teens? Not if you are sexually active, Gay/Lesbian, and most of all, not assisted by Republicans
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Our nation's juvenile detention system is in desperate need of massive reform. There are horrifying reports of the physical and sexual abuse of children and teens in juvenile correctional facilities.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
We should stop spending a fortune on traditional, non-therapeutic, correctional facilities and then releasing youth back into our communities with little done to address their rehabilitation and education needs.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
We can do better. Incarceration shouldn't be our society's first or primary response to a minority youth in trouble.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
Our ranking as the world's number one jailer represents a monumental national failure. We need to refocus what we do with the children we detain.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics
The shame is that many of those who demanded Bell's freedom didn't put up a nickel to see that he got it.
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Susan Mernit | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media