Juvenile Justice

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U.S. Shouldn't Jail Youth For Life

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Christopher Frank Pittman, Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Youthradio, Joe Sullivan, Roper v. Simmons, Sullivan v. Florida, Youth Incarceration, U.S. Supreme Court, Juvenile Justice, Youth Imprisonment, Prison, Youth Radio, Jail, Car Jacking, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Politics News

How the Supreme Court rules in two cases concerning juvenile incarceration could determine whether sentencing juveniles to life without parole is cruel and unusual punishment.

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A Day for A Day

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rouge Judges, Judges on the Take, Justice, Judges, Juvenile Justice, Wilkes-Barre, Politics News

A couple of rouge judges in Wilkes-Barre, in the Northeast part of the state, destroyed the lives of thousands of young people because the judges were on the take.

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No Safe Passage: Little Rock to Chicago

Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Human Rights, Derrion Albert, Chicago Public Schools, Juvenile Justice, Chicago School Reform, South Side of Chicago, Education Reform, Race, Civil Rights, Robert Yummy Sandifer, Fenger High School, Roseland, Chicago News

Remember the eight extraordinary students in Little Rock who ultimately required the presence of troops for their safe passage into the school they finally integrated? Where was Derrion Albert's safe passage?

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Our Justice System Needs to Protect Children's Human Rights

Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Center-on-Wrongful-Convictions-of-Youth, Central Park Jogger, Human Rights, Chicago News, False Confessions, Criminal Justice, Northwestern University, Exoneration, Steve Drizin, Juvenile Justice, Anthony Caravella, Chicago News

Routine police interrogation methods have elicited an outrageously high proportion of false confessions -- coerced confessions given by innocent suspects, especially children, who quickly recant.

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Why Young People Falsely Confess to Police

Steve Drizin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Exoneration, Thaddeus Jimenez, West Memphis Three, Center-on-Wrongful-Convictions-of-Youth, Central Park Jogger, Lacresha Murray, Bernardine Dohrn, False Confessions, Juvenile Justice, Steve Drizin, Marty Tankleff, Ryan Harris, Criminal Justice, Northwestern University, Chicago News

I've seen police lie to children in all manner of ways, telling one child that his dead sister's blood was found in his bedroom and a different boy that his father had awakened from a coma and told police the boy was his assailant.

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Barney Brown: His First Year of Freedom

John Maki | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Exoneration, Juvenile Justice, Rainbow Coalition, Barney Brown, Innocence Project, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Double Jeopardy, Wrongful Conviction, Florida, Northwestern University, Criminal Justice, Chicago News

On September 24, Barney Brown celebrates his first year of freedom after 38 years of wrongful incarceration. His story is one of the most egregious wrongful convictions in U.S. history.

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Promising Models for Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative, Missouri, Children, California, Politics News

The pipeline to prison in the U.S. is not an act of God or inevitable but a series of choices that can be changed with strong leadership and a focus on meeting child and youth needs.

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Santa Clara County Probation Program's Alternative to Warehousing Youths

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice, Santa Clara, Youth, Correctional Facilities, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Politics News

The programs cognitive therapeutic approach directs young people to confront the choices they've made and develop empathy for their victims.

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Los Angeles' Juvenile Justice Fiasco

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

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

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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Privatized Hell

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Privatization, Juvenile Justice, Prisons, Mississippi, Incarcerated Teens, Politics News

As a society, we are facing a crucial decision: We can continue to criminalize our children and groom them for adult prisons. Or, we can invest in programs that help rather than harm them.

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National Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit This Week

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: California, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Juvenile Justice, Living News

The disparity in spending on youth incarceration compared to spending for education reveals how perverse the California's priorities have become.

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Juveniles Don't Belong in Adult Prisons

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Campaign for Youth Justice, Juvenile Justice, Children's Defense Fund, Politics News

There is no justification for locking up these young people in adult prisons. Juveniles may be held in adult jails for months or even years, although most of them are not charged with a violent crime.

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Reforming Juvenile Injustice

Carol Chodroff | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Dentention, Juvenile Crime, Prison, Juvenile Justice, Politics News

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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