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Crime and Justice News
Oct 31, 20232 min read
Lawsuit Alleges Abuse Of Children At Louisiana’s Angola Prison
In the summer of 1996, Charles “Chuck” Daniel found himself transferred to Louisiana’s Angola prison to serve out a 149-year sentence for...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 11, 20232 min read
Judge Orders LA To Stop Housing Teens At Adult Angola Prison
After a spate of escapes and violent episodes at two juvenile detention facilities last year, Louisiana began housing minors in the old...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 28, 20232 min read
Chaotic First Month for Reopened L.A. Juvenile Hall
In just nine days after reopening Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles County, seven youths had smashed apart a table and used the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 28, 20233 min read
Teen Curfews On the Rise Again, But Some With Softer Edge
Since 1996, when President Bill Clinton urged cities and towns to impose nightly curfews on teenagers, more than 400 towns, cities and...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 24, 20232 min read
Jersey Shore Towns Enact Curfews To Reduce Disruptive Behaviors
Wildwood, a youthful shore city in New Jersey frequented by tourists, has tightened its curfew rules in an effort to be proactive about...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 18, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
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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