Young CA Offenders Moved To Local Centers; Critic Calls It 'Disaster'
In the weeks before California shuttered its lockups for juveniles on June 30, teens and young adults aged 15 to 25 who had been...
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Aug 16, 20232 min read
1,000 'Child Lifers' Have Won Release Under High Court Rulings
Of the more than 300 inmates serving life without parole sentences for crimes committed as juveniles who became eligible for resentencing...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 31, 20232 min read
84% of Youths In Juvenile Detention Ever Used Drugs, BJS Says
An estimated 84% of youths in juvenile detention facilities reported ever using drugs and 76% reported ever using alcohol, based on data...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 25, 20232 min read
Dallas DA Works to Detain Fewer Children
Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has instructed his prosecutors to distinguish between juvenile "nuisances" and "dangers" and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20232 min read
Louisiana Put Kids in Angola. Now They're Sweltering
Children in Louisiana’s juvenile justice system who are housed in a former death row building at the state’s adult prison are enduring...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 7, 20232 min read
ACLU Sues Illinois Over Conditions At Juvenile Detention Facility
Children as young as 11 are being confined to cells the size of parking spaces for up to 23 hours a day at a juvenile detention center in...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 7, 20231 min read
Iowa Teen Who Beat Teacher To Death Sentenced To Life In Prison
The first of two Iowa teenagers who pleaded guilty to beating their high school Spanish teacher to death with a baseball bat was...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 7, 20231 min read
Critics: Dallas County Jails Minors Longer Than National Standards
A report from the organization Evident Change found that Dallas County is handing minors more punitive judgments than are some other big...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 30, 20231 min read
Juvenile Incarceration, Youth Crime Cases Both On The Decline
Juvenile incarceration and the number of juvenile cases in juvenile courts have decreased in recent decades, say two newly-issued...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Advocates Seek To Bar Life Without Parole Terms For Young Adults
Defining adulthood as starting at age 18 in the criminal justice system is a flawed concept that disproportionately harms Black people...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 8, 20232 min read
Texas Study Questions Use of Juvenile Probation, Length of Terms
A rare look at juvenile probation, using years-old data from Texas, suggests that too many children are placed for too long on probation,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 7, 20232 min read
How Schiraldi Works To Reduce Youth Gun Violence In Maryland
Nearly one-quarter of youths placed in Maryland juvenile services facilities since last July have been charged with a handgun violation....
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Crime and Justice News
May 25, 20232 min read
L.A. County Under Fire on Two Fronts to Clean Up Jails
Los Angeles County officials have two months to move about 300 youths out of two troubled juvenile halls after state regulators ordered...
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Crime and Justice News
May 10, 20232 min read
L.A. County Urged To Close Youth Detention Units; Boy, 18, Dies
A California oversight agency issued a report Tuesday calling for Los Angeles County’s juvenile halls to be shuttered amid a staffing...
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Crime and Justice News
May 10, 20232 min read
32,000 Have Served In Prison Since Childhood, New Report Says
An organization called Human Rights for Kids issued a report that it said shows "the full scope of the harm of prosecuting and...
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Crime and Justice News
May 1, 20232 min read
Troubled Texas Juvenile Prisons Sending More Youth To Adult Units
Desperate to restore order in the five youth prisons it operates, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) has been asking judges to...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 26, 20231 min read
Texas Firing 7 Prison Employees After 16-Year-Old Commits Suicide
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is moving to fire seven employees for failing to check on a 16-year-old boy who died by...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 11, 20232 min read
Critics Fear 'Shadow' Justice System Harms California Youth Prisons
Two and a half years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws meant to provide better community-based alternatives to California’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 28, 20232 min read
Shootings Of Baltimore Teens Rise As Overall Gun Violence Falls
Decades after losing her older brother to gun violence, Michelle Hines tried everything to keep her teenage son safe: checking in...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 24, 20233 min read
OJJDP's Ryan Wants To Get More Youth Out Of 'Toxic' Prisons
Liz Ryan’s appointment to head the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has been met with...
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