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From the Youth Correction Leaders for Justice: As prosecutors, youth correctional administrators, and other concerned individuals, we have too often witnessed the failures of our country’s system of youth justice. The United States has long been the global leader in youth incarceration, locking up young people at a far higher rate than other industrialized nations, resulting in further trauma and fraying family and social ties, rather than improving children’s lives. By any measure, our overuse of incarceration for youth is ineffective, inefficient, and inhumane.
After an initial decrease in the youth detention population since the pandemic began, the rate of release has slowed, and the gap between white youth and Black youth has grown.
Nine in 10 children in the juvenile justice system report experiencing trauma of some kind, and 70% struggle with mental health disorders — rates much higher than the general population, though depression and anxiety, unfortunately, remain common among Utah kids. The high likelihood is that a child involved in criminal activity has already suffered far beyond their fair share. It seems obvious — and the continuing horrors of Trump’s immigration policies demonstrate — that the stress associated with prosecution and detainment can only serve to traumatize them further.
A parole law passed last week in Virginia effectively mooted the U.S. Supreme Court case of notorious Washington, D.C., sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, who had challenged four life-without-parole sentences he received as a teenager for his role in a series of shootings that terrorized the Beltway region in 2002.
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.
In this vast field, there are those who are at the forefront of leadership, and there is also a group of up-and-coming leaders. This award will be presented to a deserving candidate who stands out when it comes to leadership. Consider those colleagues who are role models and mentors, who set the standard for their organizations, who makes things better for those they work alongside as well as the youth they serve. Also think about colleagues who are just beginning to grow into leadership, who are demonstrating the ability to have a myriad of positive impacts on their organizations. This person may be someone in a current leadership position or someone who you believe is on the road to a leadership role.
The program, founded in 2000 in Chicago, uses a public health approach that treats violence like an infection that begins with a shooting, spreads to family and friends seeking retribution, then to others and so on. To stop the infection, it hires violence interrupters like Ervin — people with credibility in the streets, some with a criminal past — to try to stop violence before it occurs.
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.
Donald Trump and the Democrats hoping to unseat him as president all say they want to reform the criminal justice system in the United States, which held 2.3 million people behind bars in 2019.
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.
