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SACRAMENTO —
California lawmakers will consider expanding the reach of the state’s juvenile justice system so that those under age 21 are automatically tried as minors — an idea backed by some state probation officers, who say teenagers aren’t mature enough to be held responsible in the same way as older offenders.
The number of arrests at city schools plummeted during the first months of the school year in the wake of recent reforms that discouraged arrests for more minor offenses, new data shows.
NYPD officers made fewer than 150 arrests in city schools between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019 — about half the number of arrests cops made during the same months the previous year. The number of court summonses for schoolkids fell even more dramatically — from 124 in the last quarter of 2018 to 51 in 2019, a drop of 59%.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — About 30 members of Laborers Local 860 demonstrated Monday outside the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center to protest, among other things, what they say are unsafe conditions and understaffing at the detention center.
An audit by the city’s inspector general has concluded it is impossible to tell whether an expensive, 14-year effort to divert thousands of Chicago youths out of the criminal justice system by linking them to social services is working or a failure.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Kentucky-based juvenile justice advocate is calling on Tennessee officials to end the practice of solitary confinement in the state's juvenile detention centers.
Vicki Reed with the Kentucky Juvenile Justice Initiative was shocked to learn children in Tennessee can be kept alone in their cells for up to 24 hours a day, for days at time.
SEATTLE — King County’s controversial new Juvenile Justice Center opened its doors for public tours Wednesday, offering access inside cells that will soon house incarcerated youth.
One of the last pieces of legislation from former California Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office would end the prosecution of pre-teens who commit crimes, other than murder and forcible sexual assault.
"I think that we are in a moment now where there is bipartisan support for criminal justice reform, where policymakers really understand that mass incarceration has not increased public safety," one expert said.
A new federal report has found the number of kids who say they have been sexually victimized in juvenile detention centers has dropped across the U.S. compared with past years. But remarkably high rates of sexual abuse persist in 12 facilities stretching from Oregon to Florida, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics report released Wednesday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A supervisor and former employee of the Juvenile Justice Center were arrested and charged in connection to the escape of four teens.
Today Dr Etan Nasreddin-Longo, chair of the Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel, will present the Panel’s report to the Legislative Joint Justice Oversight Committee. The report contains extensive recommendations to the Legislature regarding ways to ameliorate the racial disparities that exist in our criminal and juvenile justice systems. These recommendations include centralizing a bias incident complaint process, significantly expanding data collection efforts, and implementing reforms to reduce racial profiling. The report also discusses root causes of racial disparities and summarizes the Panel’s extensive policy considerations.
The Delaware County Juvenile Court has opened a juvenile assessment center, the first in the county’s history.
Staff aren't reenacting a version of Fight Club at Cornerstone — they're following a state-sanctioned policy. In Missouri's juvenile corrections system, there are two options for physically restraining kids. On some occasions, staff will do it. Most of the time, the youth have to handle it.
Two bills introduced in the Michigan Senate on Thursday would seal juvenile court records from public view and create a process to automatically expunge juvenile records for those who stay out of trouble.
It was years in the making, but staring this month 16 and 17-year-olds will not automatically be charged as adults for low-level felonies and misdemeanors in North Carolina.
New York City Council confronted Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration today on a steady increase in the use of force in two youth detention facilities.
“We all agree there’s a problem, the numbers lay that out,” said Manhattan Councilman Keith Powers (D), chair of the Criminal Justice Committee, to a group of administration officials who appeared to testify. “What is the game plan between now and next year to improve those numbers? … What programs, services or staffing?”
RALEIGH, N.C. - Significant changes to North Carolina's justice system for young offenders and sex-related offenses begin this weekend.
No longer will 16- and 17-year-olds be automatically tried in adult court for most nonviolent or less serious felonies as the state's long-awaited "Raise the Age" initiative takes effect. Victims of child sex abuse will have more time as adults to seek civil damages against perpetrators. And, a court decision preventing women from legally revoking consent is getting overridden.
California would expand its juvenile-justice system to include 18- and 19-year-olds under a proposal from the state’s probation chiefs, a move they said would allow a more restorative approach for those teenagers but one expert warned could be difficult to implement.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Children are being locked in solitary confinement at a Middle Tennessee juvenile detention center under conditions that experts say could amount to torture, an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered.
At Georgia’s seven juvenile prisons, hundreds of surveillance cameras capture the daily violence and chaos that permeate the facilities. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained videos of several incidents involving the use of force by corrections officers at the Sumter Youth Development Campus in Americus. The state Department of Juvenile Justice obscured the faces of juveniles in the videos.
