Prison Prevention for Kids: A Little Money Well Spent
Intervention at the right age can turn a kid away from gangs, crime, and drugs for good whereas doling out stiff penalties only seems to result in more people going to prison.
Intervention at the right age can turn a kid away from gangs, crime, and drugs for good whereas doling out stiff penalties only seems to result in more people going to prison.
Jacqueline Caster | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
We can go a long way toward helping California's budget crisis simply by reforming Los Angeles County's antiquated juvenile justice system. Californ...
Rob Warden | Posted 12.10.2008 | 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 11.28.2008 | 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 09.14.2008 | 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.
Carol Chodroff | Posted 07.10.2008 | 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.
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living