The Michigan Juvenile Detention Association will continue to be a national leader in promoting and sustaining of exemplary juvenile detention, residential treatment, and community based services for youth and their families.
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.
In the field of juvenile justice, Justice Kennedy is most recognized for his Eighth Amendment sentencing decisions. Principally, in 2005, he authored the opinion Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the death penalty for juveniles who committed offenses when they were “older than 15 but younger than 18” years old.
“We want to prevent the criminalization of children and provide services to (young people) to address those issues” that lead to criminal behavior, Stanley said of the purpose of the court — issues such as poor mental or emotional health, food insecurity or a lack of parental supervision at home.
Recent rulings mean hundreds of prison inmates convicted as juveniles when Florida still had parole likely won't get new sentencing hearings.
PATERSON — Local education advocates say the Paterson district should consider increasing its counseling staff and cutting the number of police officers and security guards in schools.
The transgender woman described feeling like a "sex slave" while incarcerated at several men's prisons across Illinois, claiming repeated abuse and sexual assaults involving guards and inmates, according to court documents.
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.
