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What's New(s) in the Nation
- June 21, 2010 - by Todd Richmond
After struggling for years to treat young criminals in razor-wire-ringed institutions, states across the country are quietly shuttering dozens of reformatories amid plunging juvenile arrests, softer treatment policies and bleak budgets. more
- February 22, 2010 - by LaWanda Johnson
The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released a factsheet today challenging the Obama administration's proposed Fiscal Year 2011 Department of Justice budget. The Administration is asking for $29.2 billion, which includes more funding for law enforcement and prisons, and reductions in spending on juvenile justice programs that have been proven to be effective at getting youth back on track for positive life outcomes. more
- February 21, 2010
TROY ERIK ISAAC was 12 years old and one week into a court-ordered detention for vandalism when he was sexually assaulted by an older, bigger boy. It would not be the last time. "I was effeminate, thin and looked vulnerable," he says now, 24 years after the fact. "Nobody tells you when you go in, 'You better be careful.'" more
- January 30, 2010 - by Ruben Rosario
A little-known virus is sweeping the nation. This most righteous outbreak is partly fueled by the economic doldrums of recent years. At least three counties in Minnesota happily came down hard with this bug more than three years ago. A fourth has eagerly reached out to be similarly afflicted. This most-needed plague has a name - the JDAI virus. That stands for Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. more
- October 21, 2009 - by Marisol Bello
Many low-income families feel squeeze as subsidies dry up and some providers are forced to raise fees or shut down. more
- September 09, 2009 - by Adam M. Ratliff
First-of-its-kind Report Uncovers Successes and Challenges of State Compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act more
- August 24, 2009 - by Nicholas Confessore
Excessive physical force was routinely used to discipline children at several juvenile prisons in New York, resulting in broken bones, shattered teeth, concussions and dozens of other serious injuries over a period of less than two years, a federal investigation has found. more
- August 09, 2009 - by Solomon Moore
The teenager in the padded smock sat in his solitary confinement cell here in this state's most secure juvenile prison and screamed obscenities. more
- August 07, 2009 - by Maia Szalavitz
Parents have always warned teenagers against falling in with the wrong crowd, those kids they consider bad influences. Now a new study of juvenile detention in Montreal adds to the evidence that Mom and Dad may have a point. more
- August 06, 2009 - by Patti Epler
A new political action committee, its backers angered by deep cuts to the state budget for education and health care, aims to change the next Legislature to one more likely to support human services. more
- August 06, 2009 - by Abdul Ali
Reginald Dwayne Betts could easily be placed in the tradition of Black men writing about their spiritual rebirth while incarcerated, like Nathan McCall's "Makes Me Wanna Holler" and the genre-defining "Autobiography of Malcolm X." more
- August 06, 2009 - by Ginger Williams
What does a 16-year-old boy know about "learning, survival and coming of age in prison?" For me, it's too much information. Our young sons and grandsons and brothers and nephews and uncles don't need to know that because they should be incapable of wrapping their brains around such a concept. more
- August 06, 2009 - by Pat Nolan
Would you put this 11 year old in an adult prison for the rest of his life? Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have charged an 11year old boy as an adult for murdering his father's girlfriend. more
- July 10, 2009 - by Peter S. Goodman
Her first night inside the razor wire at the state juvenile prison came as a 14-year-old in the mid-1970s, when she was locked up for running away from home. Her next experience came the following decade, when she began work as a correctional officer. more
- June 28, 2009 - by Laura Laing
More than one in eight prisoners in the U.S. has a serious mental illness. Advocates of a new system of "mental-health courts" say that, with treatment, many of them could become lawful and productive, reducing overcrowding in our nation's prison system at the same time. more
- June 28, 2009
State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, is haunted by the case of a Riverside girl who was 16 when she killed the man who sexually abused her and lured her into prostitution. She was sentenced to life without parole and, today, at age 31, Sara Kruzan has been rehabilitated. more
- June 25, 2009 - by Daniel Victor and Lara Brenckle
There's usually nothing more than traffic stops or minor crashes on the stretch of 13th Street off Paxton Street near the Interstate 83 ramps. So the man walking south along the road on a sunny afternoon likely wouldn't think himself to be in danger. more
- June 18, 2009 - by Mary K. Reinhart
After turning away an estimated 65 people over the past month because of a payment dispute with Magellan Health Services, the county's public hospital system has agreed to resume accepting people in crisis who are referred for mental health evaluation -- if it has room. more
- June 17, 2009 - by Dorothy Rawley
The District of Columbia City Council, seemingly unfazed by any serious threat of increased violent crimes by youth during the summer months, has passed emergency crime legislation containing the majority of provisions sought by some of its members, while rejecting those related to gang injunctions. more
- June 17, 2009 - by Laura Maggi
Budget cuts ordered by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration for programs designed to help young delinquents clean up their behavior while continuing to live at home are drawing fire from advocacy groups seeking changes in Louisiana's troubled juvenile-justice system. more
- May 05, 2009 - by Jane Velez-Mitchell
Ten years ago, teen Daniel Giddings shot a man during an attempted robbery and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison. more
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