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Cities like Ecorse, which is along the Detroit River and attracts anglers, are expected to benefit from changes in how Wayne County administers $5.4 million in community development block grants to 34 communities. A majority of the funds will no longer be granted by a population-based formula but through a competitive bid process.
Police have three main roadside tests they administer to tell if someone is driving while drunk or on drugs. The tests, however, yield mixed results for marijuana.
“After extensive review and evaluation, the commission has unanimously concluded that the existing system is broken, and it is imperative to create a stable and consistent funding source for Michigan trial courts that removes trial court judges from the role of raising money for the operation of the courts,” the report states.
Macomb County’s top two juvenile court administrative officials favor legislation that would raise the age for adult criminal court from 17 to 18.
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - The sheriff’s office plans to transfer some 17-year-old inmates awaiting trial or sentencing for nonviolent crimes from the county jail to juvenile detention this month.
Rapes. Suicide attempts. Assaults. Sex trafficking. This is what happens to many girls who wind up at 665 East Grand Boulevard, a youth shelter where one girl a month attempts suicide, nearly three a month get assaulted and one gets raped every other month after running away and ending up in dangerous situations, police records show.
Detroit has the lowest share of middle class families among the nation’s 50 largest cities. But Detroit’s 91 census tracts where 30 percent to 50 percent of the households are middle- or upper-middle class present an opportunity for growth.
A $533 million new consolidated criminal justice complex for Wayne County is being built by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock LLC as part of a March deal for a key downtown Detroit property.
A package of bills aimed at raising the age Michigan residents can be tried as adults passed out of a House committee Wednesday.
The United States detains more citizens in prison than in any other country in the world, as well as more people under correctional control than any given moment in American history.
At the University of Michigan, a team of five professors — Heather Ann Thompson, Matt Lassiter, Ruby Tapia, Ashley Lucas and Amanda Alexander — are working together to combat mass incarceration within academia.
In a sad twist of irony, Michigan legislators and advocates hoping to improve the state’s juvenile justice system ran out of time this year because of how long it took to address one of the biggest child abuse scandals in American history.
OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — The Kids Count in Michigan Date Book has named Ottawa County the second best county in the state for a child’s well being.
Michigan is one of only five states that automatically prosecute all 17-year-old offenders as adults. Lawmakers introduced bills last year to raise the age of adult criminal liability to 18, but put the discussion on hold while a consulting firm conducted a cost study to determine the proposal’s financial impact. The study’s completion in early March has put the ball back in the legislature’s court. Although imperfect, the study can help policymakers with their efforts to enact the change, and Michigan should lose no time in joining the other states that have already done so.
The state can be held liable for teens raped in Michigan prisons, after the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled a state law that halted civil rights at the prison gate was unconstitutional.
In a 2-1 decision released Tuesday, a Court of Appeals panel threw out a 1999 law that said the state’s civil rights law, the Elliott Larson Civil Rights Act, doesn’t apply to prisoners.
Through the Handle With Care program, which launched at the beginning of February, police officers can send notices to schools when children are exposed to a traumatic incident. The hope is to make teachers and staff more cognizant that a student may need additional or different support than usual.
ITS BEEN NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE SCOTUS RULED JUVENILE LIFERS SHOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO COME HOME. TODAY, LESS THAN 10% IN THE STATE HAVE DONE SO.
MICHIGAN -- The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in collaboration with the Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice, has issued a Request for Proposal to support juveniles and the juvenile justice system.
$35 - instructions and materials provided by Selah Art Studio and Angie Briggs Johnson, Art Teacher at OCJDC.
ONONDAGA, MI - Early last summer, a grant from the James and Kimberly Currie Foundation helped create a new music studio at Highfields Inc.'s residential campus in Onondaga.
Since then, the at-risk youth who come through the multi-purpose human services organization have been making the most of the state-of-the-art recording equipment, finding meaningful ways to express themselves through song.
Detroit Public Theatre's Shakespeare in Prison program has received a grant to expand to work with juveniles.
The program currently works with female prisoners at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti. The $15,000 Michigan Humanities Council grant has in part allowed it to start a 12-week workshop with young people in treatment at the Washtenaw County Youth Center.
