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Juvenile Justice

Cook County has reduced juvenile detention admissions about 15 percent. (Cirt/Wikimedia)
Cook County Raises Bar on Juvenile Detention Age
Thursday, September 13, 2018
CHICAGO – Hundreds of young children are held in juvenile detention facilities each year in Illinois. And the county responsible for many of ...Read More
Connecticut has the third highest cost of incarceration in the nation. (TayebMEZAHDIA/pixabay)
Formerly Incarcerated Need Jobs, Opportunities
Monday, September 10, 2018
HARTFORD, Conn. – People who've spent time in Connecticut jails and prisons are asking the state to invest in opportunities for all instead of ...Read More
After 36 youths escaped from a detention center in Kearney in 2016, just 17 runaways were reported in 2017. So far in 2018, just four people have left the treatment center without permission. (Pxhere)
Groups Challenge $2 Million Youth Detention Fence
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
KEARNEY, Neb. – Momentum is building to install a $2 million fence around a youth detention center in Kearney, but children's advocates are ...Read More
Advocates say the juvenile court system offers more rehabilitative resources than the adult system. (Pixabay)
Will Illinois Join National "Raise the Age" Wave?
Monday, July 23, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Some advocates and policymakers are hopeful Illinois will become part of a wave of national juvenile justice reform ...Read More
In Texas, 30 percent of kids younger than age 5 live in hard-to-count census tracts. These 582,000 children are at risk of being overlooked in the upcoming 2020 census. (AECF)
Texas Kids at Risk of Undercount in 2020 Census
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas ranks 43rd in child well-being – which makes it one of the ten worst states for kids, according to the Annie E ...Read More
The ACLU says children's brains are still developing, and incarcerated young people need age-appropriate rehabilitation services. (Flickr)
Nev. Kids Shouldn't Serve Sentences in Adult Prisons, ACLU Says
Monday, June 18, 2018
CARSON CITY, Nev. — The state of Nevada tries children as adults for certain crimes; but when children enter the adult system, the state has ...Read More
Statistics show that children of color are much more likely to be referred for prosecution compared with their white peers. (Youth Justice Coalition)
Hearing Today for Bill To Ban Prosecution of Children Under 12
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Juvenile-justice groups are planning to pack a public hearing today in Sacramento - to support a bill that would ban ...Read More
Michigan is one of only five states that require 17-year-olds be tried as adults. (Pixabay)
Will "Raise the Age" Legislation Get Movement in Michigan?
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
LANSING, Mich. - Seventeen-year-olds in Michigan can't vote, can't serve in the military or buy a pack of cigarettes. Yet under current law they can ...Read More
Under Utah's 2015 criminal justice reforms, the percentage of the prison population serving time for nonviolent offenses shrank from 40 percent to 32 percent. (Keith Allison/Flickr)
UT Reforms Successfully Reduced Prison Population, Data Shows
Monday, June 4, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah's prison population is now well below where it had been projected to be by this time, according to new data The Pew ...Read More
A bill that aims to reduce carjacking would put the burden on juvenile justice advocates to prove their clients should be freed until their cases are resolved. (Pixabay)
Carjacking Crackdown Bill Means More Detention for Juveniles
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Claiming not to know that a car is stolen would no longer be a major factor in prosecuting suspected carjackers under a ...Read More
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