Juvenile Justice System

Can You Keep a Secret?

Dawn Turner | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Youth Prisons, California Youth Prisons, SF Impact, California Juvenile Justice, La Impact, Juvenile Justice Reform, Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Los Angeles News

Our nation's youth, especially in California, need our voices, our advocacy, and our efforts. Let's find ways to invest and believe in our youth, and champion alternatives for reform of the juvenile justice system.

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School discipline debate reignited by new Los Angeles data

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Juvenile Justice System, Los Angeles, Juvenile Justice, Los Angeles News

By Susan FerrissiWatch NewsAs a national debate heats up over appropriate student discipline, new data from Los Angeles reveal that school police th...

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Government Should Restore Fidelity in the Juvenile Justice System

Bonnie Saltzman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Colorado Juvenile Laws, Youthful Offender System, Juvenile Justice Reform, Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Detention, J.D.B. vs. North Carolina, Juvenile Offenders, Juvenile Justice, Denver News

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.

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Colorado Takes A Second Look At Juvenile Justice

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Video, Direct File, Department of Corrections, Youth Offender System, Kids Who Kill, Juvenile Crimes, Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Denver News

For juveniles, "direct file" is a phrase that means that in the eyes of the law you've become an adult overnight and may go to an adult prison. Ne...

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Justice for All: Reforming Colorado's Juvenile Direct File Provision

Kim Dvorchak | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Direct File, Juvenile Justice System, Juveniles Tried as Adults, Juvenile Offenders, Juvenile Justice, Denver News

House Bill 1271 improves the system of selecting youth for adult prosecution by providing youth due process; the right to a hearing and judicial review over the decision to remove them from juvenile court.

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Is It Just Another Tuesday?

Sonja Sohn | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Evan Miller, US Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Kuntrell Jackson, Youth Offenders, Juvenile Offenders, Rewired for Change, Crime and Punishment, Prison, Prisons, Jail, Juvenile Justice System, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Juvenile Justice, Sonja Sohn, Crime News

Today the Supreme Court hears the cases of two young men who were sentenced to die in prison as 14-year-old children. The Court should find that young people sentenced to life without parole as children cannot be deemed beyond hope of rehabilitation. Kids can, and do, change.

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LISTEN: Why Are Mentally Ill Kids In Jail?

WBEZ | Produced by Out of the Shadows | Oct. 18, 2011 | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Juvenile Justice System, Mental Health, Chicago News

Not all mentally ill children are violent but some of them are. And many of those kids wind up tangling with the law. Experts say it's hard to keep th...

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What Every Reader Asks: 'What's It Got to Do With Me?'

David Chura | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Literacy, Education, Juvenile Justice System, Books, Incarcerated Education, Juvenile Delinquency, School Failure, Achievement Gap, Books News

When Marge introduced me, she was true to form. I winced as she laid out all her objections and doubts about the book in excruciating detail. "Oh boy, what kind of night is this going to be?" I thought.

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Juvenile Delinquency: If We Fail Our Children, We Fail Our Future

Paul Heroux | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Crime Prevention, Juvenile Delinquency, Children Crime, Kids Crime, Bv-Parenting, Preventing-Crime, Crime News

While youth can do serious damage to others, it is easier to build a child than repair an adult, and that is why crime prevention should begin very early.

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REACH to Invest in the Lives of America's Foster Youth

Paul Heroux | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: California Homeless Youth, Youth Development, Juvenile Justice System, Youth Activism, Juvenile Justice, Homeless Youth, Youth Homelessness, Foster Care, Children's Health, California Foster Care, Impact News

Currently, there are about half a million children residing in foster care within the United States. There are approximately 300,000 young adults, ages 18 to 25, who have spent at least one year in foster care. This is reason for concern.

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A Global History Lesson in Hope

David Chura | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Alternative Education, Education, Juvenile Justice System, Education News

The world is pretty small when you're locked up, especially if you're a kid doing time with a healthy body that needs to move as you struggle with those nagging teenage questions, "Who am I?" "Why me?"

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'We Are Breaking Our Faith With Victims If We Pass This Measure'

Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: California sb9, Life Without Parole for Minors, sb9 Defeated, Juvenile Convictions, California Life Without Parole, Minors in Jail, sb9, Life With No Parole, Juvenile Justice System, SB 9, Ca Juvenile Convictions, Life Without Parole, Minors in Prison, sb9 Assembly, Ca sb9, San Francisco News

On Friday, the state Assembly defeated Senator Leland Yee's SB9 — a controversial bill that would have offered some offenders a chance at eventual...

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Is Suspension The First Step To Juvie?

Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: School Discipline, Texas, School Expulsions, Video, Disciplinary Action, Juvenil Detention, School Suspensions, Texas a&M, Juvenile Justice System, School Disciplinary Policies, Texas Schools, Texas Public Schools, Juvenile Justice, Education News

A study released today shows results that one of its authors told Education Week should raise the question among state education leaders: "Is our stat...

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New Hope For Juvenile Offenders?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: New York Juvenile Justice, Education Reform, Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Justice System, New York Juvenile Justice Initiative, New York Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Justice Reform, Juvenile Justice, Impact News

NEW YORK -- Public and private funds have flooded all manner of experimental education programs, from charter schools to Race to the Top initiatives. ...

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Fulfilling Our Fundamental Obligation

Michael Piraino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guardian Ad Litem, Foster Care, Homeless Children, Budget Cuts, National CASA, Social Services, Juvenile Justice System, Adoption, Gal, Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Jimmy Wayne, Anthony Hamilton, Children, Impact News

The time has come for us to honor our society's most fundamental obligation and to ensure the right of every child to be safe, treated with dignity, and to learn and to grow in the embrace of a family.

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Strange Bedfellows: What's a Nice Liberal Like Me Doing in Bed With a Tea Party Governor?

Jon Jefferson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida Budget, Rick Scott, Juvenile Justice System, Budget Cuts, Tea Party, Juvenile Justice Reform, Politics News

Scaling back juvenile justice could actually reduce juvenile injustice. I say this after spending a year researching beatings and deaths at a Florida reform school.

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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

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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Horsing Around With Gangs: Horse Whisperer Meets Gang Advocate

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Drug Addiction, Poverty, Abuse, Trauma, Crime, Prison, Detention, Horse Slaughter, Gang Violence, Horses, Healing, Drug Abuse, Juvenile Justice System, Gangs, Juvenile Justice, Recovery, Alcohol, Healthy Living News

In spite of the 9000 miles that lie between them -- both culturally and racially -- after listening to them discuss their passions for their work with troubled horses and at-risk youth, you might think Joe Guy and Ron Johnson were related.

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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

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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Defending Juvenile Justice?

Alexandra Cox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Violence, Obama Administration, Ojjdp, Juvenile Justice System, Eric Holder, Juvenile Justice, Politics News

The Obama Administration has an opportunity to simultaneously address the crimes committed by young people and the harms caused by their incarceration. It is time to find a leader for the Office of Juvenile Justice.

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Community Justice, Not Criminal Justice

Kaile Shilling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juveniles, California, Prevention, Life-Without-Parole, Juvenile Justice System, California State Legislature, Los Angeles, Juvenile Justice, Los Angeles News

In rejecting the ban on juvenile life without parole sentences the California State Assembly missed an opportunity to bring our state into line with the rest of the Western world.

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In Illinois, Many Teens Are Doing Hard Time For Nonviolent Crime

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cook County Jail, Nonviolent Crime, Derrick Reed, Prison, Drugs, Cook County Court, Jail, War on Drugs, Juvenile Justice System, Chicago Reporter, Chicago News

When Derrick Reed was born, he was fragile and addicted to crack. With his drug addicted mother and drug-selling father out of the picture, he was rai...

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A Novel Approach to Stem Gang Recruitment of Minors

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prison, Crime, Incarceration, Juvenile Justice Reform, Gang Violence, Los Angeles, Sentencing, Juvenile Justice System, Gangs, Los Angeles Gangs, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Crime, Politics News

Shouldn't there be a law that adds an automatic and very significant enhancement to the sentence of any adult who participates in a crime that involves a youth as a co-conspirator?

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Kane County Program for Troubled Teens "Magical"

Sandy Kaczmarski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Mental Health, Kane County, Juvenile Justice System, One Hope United, Individual Education Plan, Mst, Taxpayer, Special Education, Multi-Systemic Therapy, Psychological, Iep, Treatment, Delinquent, Kane County Diagnostic Center, Chicago News

The Kane County Diagnostic Center has a new program for troubled teens. Sold to the county board as a way to save taxpayer money, the sign-up sheet is...

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It's Not What We Say, It's What We Do That Matters

Catherine Meek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Juvenile Justice System, Homeless Children, Homelessness, Youth Incarceration, Los Angeles News

When we spend almost 30 times as much money locking youth up as educating them, how can we say that education matters? I'm tired of talk. Let's educate our kids.

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