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Two state statutes in Idaho govern the process of transferring youths from juvenile to adult court. Those laws are Idaho codes 20-508 and 20-509. The latter, 20-509, lists nine offenses, and states if any juvenile 14 or older commits any of those nine crimes, they are automatically tried as an adult.
The city of Philadelphia has won a $1 million award to support its proposal for a juvenile center designed to avoid re-traumatizing children who abruptly enter the justice system.
CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County has agreed to pay nearly $180,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by four former juvenile detention inmates who claimed guards forced them to fight for their own entertainment.
King County, while building a new juvenile detention center, is also officially striving toward zero youth detention. It's exasperating some — but not all — of the critics who want to see the government hit that goal.
Despite progress in recent years, Arkansas' youth justice system is still rife with problems, a new report shows -- namely, keeping kids locked up too long, even for misdemeanors; poor oversight; a lack of use-of-force training for officers; and insufficient data-keeping that prevents the best use of resources.
The Washington Supreme Court has struck down the state's death penalty, saying that it is imposed arbitrarily and with racial bias.
"We are confident that the association between race and the death penalty is notattributed to random chance," the justices wrote in a majority opinion.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) --
Los Angeles County will no longer ask parents to pay for their children's past juvenile detention fees.
Citing the war on drugs’ disproportionate impact on people of color, judges in Seattle have agreed to vacate the marijuana convictions of hundreds of people who were punished for pot possession before the state made weed legal.
Jack a Car, Jack Up Your Life is a carjacking prevention campaign created by teens, for teens. We want our friends to think and talk about what can happen if you jack a car or ride along. We know our friends are "...trying to have fun... but you may end up killing someone in your car." --Nevaeh, 14, was incarcerated for 4 months for carjacking. Listen to what she has to say here. And if you have a friend that needs to hear it, then share it!
Constantine reveals $4 million proposed budget to fund programs aimed at helping achieve his goal of 'zero youth detention.'
U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced on Sept. 13, 2018, the Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act, new legislation that would encourage colleges and universities to remove criminal and juvenile justice questions from their admissions applications and give more Americans a chance to earn a higher education.
Major portions of San Diego’s juvenile detention facilities sit empty. And it’s not just San Diego. Falling crime rates, combined with more money for prevention and a changing juvenile justice culture, have virtually emptied California’s juvenile halls.
Children under 13 who are accused of crimes will no longer be locked up in Cook County.
Under a law passed unanimously Wednesday by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, the county will find alternatives to detaining kids arrested in the county.
Despite all efforts in Austin to provide mentors and support to our most challenged children, too many fall through the cracks. So a nonprofit new to Austin, Friends of the Children, aims to find those children and serve them with an innovative model its board chair calls “common sense, but not common practice.”
Three new reports and interviews with former staff document overcrowding and severe staffing shortages at the Youth Study Center.
Under the settlement, the county also will pay $240,000 to four juveniles who were held in solitary confinement at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Concluding that they do more harm than good, Orleans Parish Juvenile Court has abolished court fees for juvenile delinquents.
On average, 92 immigrant children each year cycle through the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center, most of them from Mexico and Central America.
LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) -
Over 10,000 juveniles have gone through the Multi-Agency Resource Center, or, M.A.R.C. since its opening in 2011.
"Misdemeanor offenses, shoplifting, trespassing, small property damages. Not major, not felonies," Bill Sommers, Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice Services, said.
The DMC sub-committee found that the failure to appear in court rate for youth of color was double that of white youths, a factor that contributed to the lower rate of reduction in detentions for youth of color. In fact, 66 percent of the youth in detention for failure to appear over a two years period were youths of color. The county juvenile services office has since revised that process to make it easier for youths to appear in court, thereby “dramatically” reducing numbers.
