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Juvenile Justice

Fixing Illinois' Unconstitutional Mandatory Life Without Parole Sentencing for Juveniles

Jeanne Bishop | Posted 05.16.2013 | Chicago
Read More: Juvenile-Life-Sentence, Juvenile Life Without Parole, Politics, Murder Victims Family Members, Federalism, Sentencing Reform, Criminal Justice, U.S. Constitution, Separation of Powers, Crime Victims, Juvenile Life No Parole, Juvenile Life in Prison, Illinois Legislature, Criminal Justice Reform, Juvenile Justice, Chicago News
Jeanne Bishop

It's May now, and the Illinois legislature has already taken up measures to try to fix the concealed carry law. The fix on juvenile life sentences? Still waiting.

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Senior Corps: Making a Difference for Generations

Wendy Spencer | Posted 05.16.2013 | Impact
Read More: Baby Boomers, Disaster Relief, Volunteering, Austin, West Texas, Rsvp, National Service, Volunteers, Senior-Corps-Week, Healthy Aging, Senior-Corps-Volunteers, Seniors, Juvenile Justice, Utah, Veterans, Impact News
Wendy Spencer

For generations, seniors have been making a powerful impact in their communities, and their service is more important now than ever. Let us pay a special tribute to these remarkable seniors, who do so much to improve our communities and nation.

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Remembering My Son This Mother's Day

Vicky Gunderson | Posted 05.13.2013 | Impact
Read More: Criminal Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Impact News
Vicky Gunderson

I would never have imagined that with all the love in my heart and what we felt were the best parenting skills my husband and I knew, that we would find ourselves visiting our son in the county jail, where he was incarcerated nine days after his 17th birthday.

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Forgiving the Man Who Killed My 3-Year-Old Son

Sharletta C. Evans | Posted 05.09.2013 | Parents
Read More: Gun Violence, Mother's Day, Gun Control, Colorado Gun Violence, Colorado Gun Control, Guns, Colorado Gun Laws, Fair Sentencing, Forgiveness, Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice, Parents News
Sharletta C. Evans

This Mother's Day, I will go to church and spend time with my mother and my son, Calvin. Calvin and I will reflect on the fun times he had my other son, Casson Xavier "Biscuit" Evans, who was killed in a drive-by shooting when he was only 3 years old.

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Labeled And Lost: A Teacher's Reflection

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 04.24.2013 | College
Read More: Special Ed, Language, Education, Behavior, Juvenile Justice, Problem, Directions, Jail, Student, Teacher, Spanish, Classroom, College News
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By Wesley Pepper I once spent a week in a special ed classroom as a student. I loved it because I was finally in a class with my best friend (who had ...

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New Laws Aim To Help People Get Jobs After Getting Arrested

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 04.17.2013 | Business
Read More: Ban the Box, California, Juvenile, Applying, Newark, Jobs, Employment, Apply, Juvenile Justice, Adjudication, Seattle, Application, Criminal History, Iowa, Job, Criminal, Criminal Record, Business News
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Photo Credit: Brett Myers/Youth Radio By: Ashley Williams Seventeen year-old Andrew is filling out a job application for a Jamba Juice in Oakland, C...

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An Open Letter to the North Carolina Legislature

Jamison Doran | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics
Read More: Religion, Voting Rights, Religion and Politics, Voter ID Laws, Racial Justice Act, North Carolina Racial Justice Act, Medicaid, Pat McCrory, Raleigh, North Carolina, Ncga, Juvenile Justice, Politics News
Jamison Doran

Friends in D.C. often greet me with, "What the hell is going on down in your home state?" I'm getting awfully tired of trying to defend the state as a whole by writing those in the legislature in Raleigh off as ideologues. It is getting harder and harder to do so.

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The Teenage Brain: How Do We Measure Maturity?

Wray Herbert | Posted 04.01.2013 | Science
Read More: Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Law, Neuroscience, Adolescence, Child Development, Brain, Juvenile Delinquency Neuroscience, Juvenile Delinquency Maturity, Science Maturity, Maturity Science, Maturity Neuroscience, Science News
Wray Herbert

Teenagers are attracted to novel and risky activities, especially with peers, at a time when they lack judgment and the ability to weigh future consequences. How specifically should this scientific insight into teenage risk taking inform policy and legal decisions?

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Time to Pass the Youth PROMISE Act

Robin_Wright | Posted 03.20.2013 | Impact
Read More: Robin Wright Penn, Youth Promise Act, Robin Wright House of Cards, Youth Violence Prevention, Robin Wright, Juvenile Justice, Youth Violence, Violence Prevention, Youth Violence Legislation, Video, Impact News
Robin_Wright

Rather than focusing on ineffective and wasteful "one size fits all" approaches, the Youth PROMISE Act invests in local, culturally and geographically relevant, proven and promising violence prevention and intervention strategies that save lives and enable youth to realize their vast potential.

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Rates of Incarceration For White and Hispanic Women On The Rise

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.19.2013 | Women
Read More: White Women, Women, Juvenile Justice, Hispanic Women, Prison Demographics, The Sentencing Project, Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, Women News
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By: Sayre Quevedo According to a new study by The Sentencing Project, "The Changing Racial Dynamics of Women's Incarceration," women's incarceration ...

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Chelsea Kiene

Homeless Teens Dealt New Blow

HuffingtonPost.com | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 03.19.2013 | DC
Read More: Youth Poverty, Poverty, Budget Cuts, District of Columbia, Washington D.C., Sasha Bruce Youthworks, Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Mayor Vincent Gray, Homeless Youth, Vincent Gray, Homelessness, Funding Cuts, Runaways, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, Youth Homelessness, Health and Human Services, D.C., Foster Care, DC News

WASHINGTON -- A longtime provider of runaway and homeless youth services for D.C. teens is calling out the District for falling short of its commitmen...

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Study Finds Fewer Youth in Juvenile Detention

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 04.29.2013 | Impact
Read More: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States, Laura Speer, New York, Adult Convictions, Juvenile Incarceration Rate, Data, Report, Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, Juvenile Justice, North Carolina, Juvenile Incarceration, Impact News
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By Sayre Quevedo 70,792 juveniles were reported to be incarcerated across the United States in 2010, but according to a new study by the Annie E. Case...

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Prosecutors Hid Proof of Teen's Unusual Alibi in Murder Case

David Protess | Posted 04.06.2013 | Chicago
Read More: David Koschman, False Confessions, Chicago Crime, Daniel Taylor, Juvenile Justice, Daniel Taylor Case, Daniel Taylor Alibi, Daniel Taylor Evidence, Daniel Taylor Police Records, Chicago News
David Protess

Daniel Taylor is now 37-years-old. Having spent more than half of his life behind bars, there's no place like home for Taylor -- and no place like prison for the prosecutors who stole his youth.

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A Kids' Jail That Isn't Just About Locking Them Up

Pat LaMarche | Posted 04.02.2013 | Crime
Read More: Drugs, Arizona, Juvenile Crime, Coconino County, McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, Juvenile Justice, Crime News
Pat LaMarche

Flagstaff, Arizona area McKinney-Vento homeless liaison, Stephanie Sivak, says that more than 500 kids in her district are homeless. And that means that they, "don't have a fixed regular night time residence."

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New Michigan Law Allows Expungement of Three Crimes From Juvenile Record

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 03.31.2013 | Impact
Read More: Juvenile Justice, Record Expungement, New Law, Joseph Haveman, Michigan, Rick Synder, Impact News
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By: Sayre Quevedo This month Michigan governor Rick Snyder signed a bill that made it easier for people to leave their teen indiscretions behind. The...

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Why Ending Prison Rape Won't Be Easy

David Chura | Posted 03.25.2013 | Crime
Read More: Criminal Justice, Prison Rape, Prison Rape Prevention, Juvenile Justice, Crime News
David Chura

Anyone who has worked in a detention facility knows the power of front-line staff to sabotage whatever standards or procedures are put in place to protect prisoners.

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A Sensible Approach to Gun Control: Keeping Our Neighborhoods Safe

Jackie Jenkins-Scott | Posted 03.20.2013 | Home
Read More: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Wheelock, Gun Control Laws, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Sandy Hook, Obama Gun Control, Safe-Neighborhoods, Assault Weapons, Newtown Elementary School Shooting, Gun Control, College Presidents, Teachers, Jackie Jenkins-Scott, Wheelock College, MLK Day, Guns, Juvenile Justice, Home News
Jackie Jenkins-Scott

President Obama often quotes Dr. King's statement that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Now is the time for each of us to demonstrate the truth of this statement, not by our words but by our actions. We can do something about guns.

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It's Time for Common Sense School Discipline

Judith Browne Dianis | Posted 02.12.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Senator Dick Durbin, School Discipline, School Expulsions, Restorative Justice, Dick Durbin, Senate Hearings, Advancement Project, School Suspensions, School to Prison Pipeline, School Suspension, School Arrests, Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Justice, Black Voices News
Judith Browne Dianis

Rather than giving all of our kids an opportunity to succeed, expelling and criminalizing young people pulls the rug out from underneath them at childhood, steering them away from college or career, and redirecting them on the path of dropping out and prison.

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Yoga Can Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Rob Schware | Posted 02.11.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Education Reform, Public Education Reform, School Violence, Prison, Niroga-Institute, Give Back Yoga Foundation, Juvenile Justice, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Juvenile Delinquency, Yoga, Decreasing Recidivism, Recidivism, Juvenile Justice System, Healthy Living News
Rob Schware

Today, Niroga conducts over 100 yoga classes a week in 40 sites throughout the Bay Area, serving over 5,000 children, youth, and adults annually, in mainstream and alternative schools, juvenile halls and jails, rehab centers, and cancer hospitals.

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Following Up On Juvenile Justice Reform in Michigan

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 01.29.2013 | Impact
Read More: Life Without Parole, Lwop, Juvenile Justice, Victim's Organization, Efren Paredes, Michigan, Appeals Court, Impact News
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Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Sayre Quevedo Michigan is known for i...

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A Holiday Gift from Me to You -- Really!

Tamar Birckhead | Posted 01.20.2013 | Impact
Read More: Covenant House, Homeboy Industries, Homeless Youth, Youth, Charity, Homelessness, Thanksgiving, Sentencing, Giving, Gangs, Juvenile Justice, Impact News
Tamar Birckhead

As we celebrate Thanksgiving and enter the holiday season, I am reminded of our annual family tradition, one that I imagine is shared by many across the United States.

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Spate Of Elementary Student Arrests Alarm Justice Officials

The Orlando Sentinel | Lauren Roth and Leslie Postal | Posted 01.15.2013 | Home
Read More: Elementary Schooler Arrest, Cherokee School, Florida Schools, Students Arrested, Student Discipline, Orlando Schools, Kids Arrested, School to Prison Pipeline, Juvenile Justice System, Student Punishment, Young Children Arrested, Juvenile Justice, Elementary School Students, Video, Home News

Janay Jelks loves singing, coloring and Dora the Explorer. She's 12 but has the mental age of a preschooler. She also has a felony rap sheet. Janay ...

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Juvenile Hall Is No Place for Kids

Tamar Birckhead | Posted 12.31.2012 | Crime
Read More: Juvenile Delinquency, Sentencing, Conditions of Confinement, Recidivism, Incarceration, Juvenile Justice, Crime News
Tamar Birckhead

The rundown building is surrounded by barbed wire. Inside, kids sleep in narrow locked cells, no different from what you'd find in an adult jail. They are subjected to strip searches and attend an hour or two of "school" in a crowded room filled with a random selection of books.

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Survey Finds 11 Texas School Districts Spent $227 Million On Discipline, Security

Posted 10.30.2012 | Home
Read More: School Punishment, School Discipline, School Expulsions, Student Discipline, Student Suspension, School Security, School to Prison Pipeline, Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Texas School Budget Cuts, Texas School Board, Texas School Discipline, School Disciplinary Policies, Texas Schools, Texas School Districts, Video, Home News

Officials in Texas spend $227 million annually on disciplinary problems and school security, according to a recent Texas Appleseed survey of 11 major ...

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D.C.'s Experiment To Reform Youth Incarceration

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 12.26.2012 | DC
Read More: Oak Hill, Prison, Facility, New Beginnings, Washington D.C., Juvenile Justice, Reform, Jail, Solitary Confinement, Youth Incarceration, DC News
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This story also aired on WAMU-FM. By Anne Hoffman Since the first juvenile court was established in the late 1800s, the U.S. judicial system has been...

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