Bobby Hines was fresh out of eighth grade when he and two older boys confronted a suspected drug dealer in Detroit whom they believed had stolen a fri...
Bonnie Saltzman | Posted 04.18.2012
The time has come for juvenile direct file reform in Colorado. Brain research has come a long way since 1993, and we are so close to using this evidence and research to guide our juvenile justice system.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 03.29.2012
By: Sayre Quevedo In 2005, California's juvenile prison system got a face lift. The name changed from CYA, short for California Youth Authority, to t...
Ramaa Reddy Raghavan | Posted 03.28.2012
At Crossroads, the metallic locked juvenile detention center in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Bart van Melik, 34, a slim Dutchman with a receding hairline, prepares for his weekly yoga class.
Organic Authority.com | Posted 04.28.2012
Despite the desperate backgrounds of Homegirl Café trainees -- everyone is either a previous gang member, drug addict, previously incarcerated or all three -- the place has a sunny interior, colorful artwork on the walls, and food that is fresh and delicious.
John Merrow | Posted 04.16.2012
Who have been the primary beneficiaries of "school reform?" Duh, the for-profit companies! While consultants and think tanks have done OK, the real money has been in testing and textbooks and technology and construction.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.18.2011
For inmates at one Georgia prison, a one minute phone call could cost them five times more than they earn for a day of work. The Correction Corpor...
Posted 12.21.2011
In advance of releasing her $3 billion spending plan for 2012, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle spoke about one expense she hopes to slash...
Myriam Miedzian | Posted 11.30.2011
It costs approximately $130,000 to keep one teenager in juvenile detention for one year. It would cost less than $200 per child per year to fund Educating Children for Parenting, a violence prevention program.
Posted 09.24.2011
A 17-year-old boy in Perth, Australia has been sentenced to 12 months in juvenile detention for pressuring underage girls to perform sexual acts on a ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 06.28.2011
NEW YORK -- Public and private funds have flooded all manner of experimental education programs, from charter schools to Race to the Top initiatives. ...
David Chura | Posted 05.25.2011
Most people take comfort in the popular myth of American justice--that only the guilty get arrested, charged, and incarcerated. It's obvious: more blacks than whites are arrested and put in jail because they commit more crimes.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and DENA POTTER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Nearly one out of every three youths at 13 juvenile detention facilities have reported some type of sexual victimization, according...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 500 juveniles in New York state detention seeks to ban violent physical restraint and to req...
AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY, N.Y. — Workers at four youth detention centers in New York caused dozens of serious injuries, including broken bones and teeth, when the...
Chris Norwood | Posted 05.25.2011
In June, 1989, when Tianamen Square struck, I was presenting the first study and projections of American AIDS orphans at that year's International A...
HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 05.16.2012