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The Michigan Juvenile Detention Association is committed to the highest standard of professional ethics, overall excellence in the care and custody of youth, and the provision of services to their families.
Juvenile probation departments use risk assessments to determine if a juvenile accused of a crime should be released or detained pre-trial. But even when the assessment recommends release, an NBC Bay Area investigation found most are detained anyway.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The eighth and penultimate episode of Serial’s season in Cleveland paints an unnerving portrait of life inside Ohio’s juvenile justice system.
Youth Services Insider pored over the national database of state ballot initiatives to see which ones might have a relatively direct impact on vulnerable children and families.
A Texas judge known for sending kids to juvenile detention released a group of juvenile defendants who appeared before him Wednesday, in an unusual move that came less than a day after losing his bid for re-election, according to local media reports. At least four of the minors faced serious charges.
Two years after a similar amendment failed, voters approved a measure that will remove state language allowing forced prison labor without pay.
Florida passed a constitutional amendment on Election Day called Amendment 4, which restored voting rights for felons after they served their time, including parole or probation.
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.
Facility Closure and Strategic Downsizing of Juvenile Justice Systems.
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.
In the early 2000s, when there were just two psychiatrists serving over 12 million people, Zimbabwe had to get creative to treat depression. Now, one bright idea — the Friendship Bench — is spreading far and wide.
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.
What is restorative justice? A practitioner explains how it works.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) --
Los Angeles County will no longer ask parents to pay for their children's past juvenile detention fees.
As Gov. Jerry Brown decides whether to sign SB 1391, juvenile justice advocates want to eliminate adult prosecution for 14- and 15-year-olds against opponents’ fears of irredeemable criminals going free too soon.
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.
Over the last few weeks men and women across the United States – and even as far away as Nova Scotia, Canada – have protested to demand humane treatment for the incarcerated.
In 2016, when prisoners engaged in similar hunger strikes, sit-ins, and work stoppages, their actions barely registered with the national media. As someone who regularly writes about the history of prisoner protests and prison conditions today, this lack of interest was striking.
