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A Cook County ordinance that would keep children under 13 from being jailed cannot be enforced because an appeals court recently ruled the measure conflicts with state law.
Passed in September 2018, the ordinance was lauded by juvenile justice advocates as a progressive step toward reducing the number of incarcerated youth.
In 1993, a lawyer at the Center for Children’s Advocacy brought a lawsuit challenging, among other things, the conditions of confinement at the state’s juvenile detention centers. Four years later, the court approved an agreement that resulted in the Emily J. Consent Decree, part of which required the state to retool its educational services for juvenile detainees.
Now, after years of studies showing the ways the justice system can affect young people’s education in Connecticut, officials are still grappling with how to improve educational services for kids in the justice system.
Legislative efforts to raise the age of people automatically charged as adults in Michigan’s criminal justice system from 17 to 18 earned Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature Thursday, earning praise from advocates who said the change was long overdue.
Criminal disorderly conduct charges for acting up in school are far more likely to be filed against black students in Virginia than whites, a new study by the Legal Aid Justice Center found.
Bipartisan legislation headed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's desk would raise the age at which teenagers are automatically prosecuted as adults in Michigan.
One of the men who terrorized the Washington area in a spree of killings in the fall of 2002, which became known as the “D.C. sniper attacks,” will have another day in court on Wednesday. Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, is asking the court to allow him to be resentenced because a pair of Supreme Court cases in recent years held that courts must consider a minor’s age before sentencing him or her to life without parole.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — More money needs to be included in the county budget to hire detention officers, a psychiatric nurse and others to improve safety at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center, the administrative judge told council this week.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a civilian oversight body for the the county’s Probation Department that can make unannounced visits and legally compel documents and witnesses.
As Massachusetts considers changing the way it handles young criminal offenders, it is looking at what's happening north — specifically, to Vermont.
Vermont is the first state to raise the age above 18 for when someone criminally charged goes to juvenile court, expanding what it's doing in hundreds of lower level criminal cases now.
Juvenile courts, long the link between youth offenders and treatment, are no longer the go-between for youngsters who are accused of minor offenses but need behavioral treatment. Lawmakers are exploring how to close the gap.
The recent arrests of two 6-year-old students in Orlando, which prompted outrage and the firing of the officer who restrained one child's hands with flex cuffs, mirrors a persistent problem confronting law enforcement and schools with thousands of children arrested annually and treated like "mini-adults," experts said.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Nearly a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Raise the Age legislation moving 16- and 17-year-olds out of the adult justice system, state government officials and youth advocates say conditions are significantly improving for teens in trouble with the law.
In September 2018, when the Cook County Board of Commissioners outlawed placing children younger than 13 in the county’s juvenile jail, advocates cheered the move. One group put out a press release in which Democratic Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin said the ordinance would “prevent young children from being scarred by confinement.”
But then, just about a month later, the county’s top juvenile judge made a decision to keep two 12-year-old boys in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. In the ruling Judge Michael Toomin said the county’s new law conflicted with state law and judges were not obligated to follow it.
DETROIT (WXYZ) — For the first time, we're getting an inside look at the juvenile justice system in Wayne County. 7 Action News' Kim Craig went inside Wayne County's Juvenile Detention Facility, what some people simply call "juvie," and while the kids inside may be accused of awful crimes, the staff works to remind them every day that they are not the forgotten.
With the development of treatment and assessment standards and more research, those in the system learned that with the right intervention, juvenile sex offenders are at low risk of repeat crimes.
New Orleans City Council members on Thursday criticized the ongoing practice of detaining juveniles at the city’s adult lockup, saying it goes against city ordinances designating the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center — formerly the Youth Study Center — as the appropriate facility for juveniles, including those being charged as adults.
Shelby County will join Davidson and Hamilton counties in choosing not to charge any juvenile costs — unless otherwise mandated by Tennessee law. This means the county will waive its daily detention fee that once charged parents the cost of their child's incarceration.
The Los Angeles County Probation Department has completed its facility consolidation plan this past week with the closure of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey and Camp Ellison Onizuka at the Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Lancaster.
ALBANY — Probation departments across New York have started screening young offenders for risk of suicide as a way to connect them with mental-health services.
