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Crime and Justice News
Feb 72 min read
Older TN Teens Charged With Murder Must Be Tried As Adults
Teens 16 and older charged with murder or attempted murder in Tennessee will now face life in prison due to a new “mandatory transfer”...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 22 min read
How U.S. Cut Youth Incarceration By 77 Percent In Two Decades
Between 2000 and 2020, the number of young people incarcerated in the U.S. declined by 77 percent. "If you think of juvenile...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 282 min read
Philadelphia DA's Juvenile Justice Reforms Are Not Working
Amid abuse scandals at juvenile institutions and research documenting the harms of locking up kids, leaders nationwide have called for...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 25, 20242 min read
Police Ticketing Misbehaving Students Is Illegal, IL AG Says
In a strong rebuke yet of Illinois school districts that ask police to ticket misbehaving students, the state attorney general has...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 25, 20242 min read
LA Voters To Decide Whether More Teens Can Be Sent To Adult Prisons
Louisiana voters will decide whether to make it easier to send younger teenagers to adult prisons. The Louisiana Legislature approved a...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 6, 20241 min read
PA Man Who Killed Boy, 7, Seeks High Sentence, Gets 60 Years To Life
A 20-year-old from Erie, Pa., who killed a 7-year-old boy in a gang-related shooting nearly got his wish that a judge sentence him to...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 5, 20242 min read
Maryland Juvenile Justice Reform Likely To Boost Caseloads
Prosecutors, defense attorneys and justice reform advocates agree that changes to Maryland's juvenile justice laws that took effect last...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 20, 20242 min read
Maryland GOP Seeks To Remove Juvenile Justice Chief Schiraldi
Maryland Juvenile Services Secretary Vincent Schiraldi vowed to “stay on this job,” responding to members of the General Assembly and...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 15, 20242 min read
Louisiana To Spend Millions Expanding Youth Detention
Louisiana officials expect to put tens of millions of dollars over the next two months into expanding juvenile detention centers that...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 11, 20242 min read
Louisiana OKs Use Of Pepper Spray In Juvenile Detention Centers
The Louisiana state Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ) has authorized the use of mace and pepper spray in local juvenile detention...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 13, 20242 min read
Florida Juveniles Get Stiffer Sentences Than Adults
A Miami Herald investigation found that judges are giving teens transferred to adult courts higher sentences on average for felony...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 2, 20242 min read
Justice Department Says TX Texas Juvenile Centers Violated Rights
The U.S. Department of Justice identified unconstitutional conditions in all five of Texas' juvenile detention centers, where children...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 24, 20242 min read
Omaha's $27M Juvenile Jail May Never Open
The new juvenile detention center in downtown Omaha, Neb., features comfortable rooms, common spaces with flat-screen TVs and orderly...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 10, 20242 min read
What Cities Have Learned About Curfew Centers To Cut Youth Crime
City leaders in Jackson, Mississippi are looking to set up “youth engagement centers” in tandem with a recently passed curfew ordinance...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 3, 20242 min read
High Court Won't Review Challenge to Arizona Juvenile Life Sentences
Over the dissents of its three liberal members, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would not hear an appeal from a juvenile...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 28, 20241 min read
L.A. County Juvenile Officers Regularly Call Out For Work Due To Violence In Facilities
Officers at Los Angeles County’s two juvenile halls frequently call out for work — meaning they don’t show up for their scheduled shifts...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 28, 20242 min read
Chicago's Limited Support Fails Arrested Youths
Over the past twenty years, Chicago's leaders have spent millions aiming to treat arrested children more compassionately, diverging from...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 24, 20242 min read
Does Murder Case Show Failure Of L.A. Prosecutor's Teen Crime Policy?
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s reform-minded outlook on juvenile justice seemed made for someone like Denmonne Lee....
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 24, 20242 min read
State Center Issues Guidance On Youth Crime, Mental Health
The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center released data tools and resources aimed at guiding state and local leaders on...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 5, 20242 min read
Can State Supreme Courts Expand Rights Of Criminal Defendants?
With a conservative legal majority on the United States Supreme Court, advocates are increasingly looking to state Supreme Courts to...
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