Juvenile Dentention

The Urgent Need to Change the CDC's Definition of 'Safe' Blood Lead Levels

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Juvenile Justice Crime, Cdc, Incarceration, Lead Paint, Blood, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medicaid, Juvenile Dentention, Children's Health, Parents News
Jacqueline Caster

Recently, a federal advisory committee announced its recommendation that the CDC change its outdated threshold for the diagnosis of "lead poisoning" in children. The standard has not been revisited in two decades, and it's about time.

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Radley Balko

School Police Have Uncertain Impact On Student Arrests, Crime Prevention

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Juvenile Delinquency, Video, Education, Juvenile Crime, Crime, Incarceration, Prison, Incarceration Rates, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Dentention, School to Prison, Politics News

A headline-generating study, published in the journal Pediatrics this week, suggests that approximately one in three Americans is arrested before age ...

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Yoga Helps Mexican Inmates Find Peace, Curbs Violence

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Yoga, Video, Mexico City, Prison, Mexico, Jail, Yoga Health, Juvenile Dentention, Rehabilitation, Mexico Prisons, Benefits of Yoga, Impact News

At one Mexico City juvenile detention center, inmates are finding inner peace through an unlikely practice in a jail cell: yoga. Prison wardens re...

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School On The Inside: Teaching Locked Up Kids

David Chura | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juvenile Justice, Incarcerated Education, Juvenile Justice System, At-Risk Youth, Juvenile Dentention, Prison, Education News
David Chura

As they confront their chaotic lives, kids in jail share the same goals as their peers in the world outside: get a high school diploma, secure a decent job, go to college, make something of themselves.

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Wayne Treacy, Teen Charged With Attempted Murder, Sues For Education In Jail

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wayne Treacy, Juvenile Dentention, Josie-Ratley, Prison Education, Juvenile Justice, School Violence, Josie Lou Ratley, Teen Murder, Education News

Florida teenager Wayne Treacy is suing the Broward County school board and sheriff's department for denying him adequate education while he is in jail...

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Los Angeles' Juvenile Justice Fiasco

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles, Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Dentention, Juvenile Crime, California, Los Angeles-California, Criminal Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Politics News
Jacqueline Caster

We can go a long way toward helping California's budget crisis simply by reforming Los Angeles County's antiquated juvenile justice system. Californ...

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Kids in Detention: 4; State Employees to Guard Them: 129

Elizabeth Dwoskin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gladys Carrion, Tryon, Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Dentention, Juvenile Justice System, New York Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Justice, New York News
Elizabeth Dwoskin

Why do four troubled kids need so many state employees to watch over them? Naturally, it's a union issue.

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Juvenile Justice and Race: An Uphill Climb to the Bottom

James Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth Violence, Disproportionality, Detention Policy, 2300-American-Kids-Serving-Life-Without-Parole, Detention, Prison, Juvenile Justice, Life-Without-Parole, Jail, Juvenile Dentention, Race, Nonviolent Offenders, Impact News
James Bell

Has it become an accepted fact of life in the United States that the machinery of justice applies almost solely to people of color?

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Captured by the Clueless

James Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juvenile Justice, Sex Abuse to Children, Juvenile Dentention, Juvenile Justice System, Politics News
James Bell

Incarcerating youth -- the majority of whom are locked up for nonviolent offenses -- is expensive, unproductive and harmful.

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Reforming Juvenile Injustice

Carol Chodroff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carol Chodroff

Our nation's juvenile justice policies are replete with contradictions between practices proven to prevent crime, and punitive laws politicians promote to get elected.

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