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Last summer, Kameelah Davis-Spears was just one year out of homelessness. She’d found a house for herself and her four children in West Philadelphia using a Section 8 voucher. And, between food stamps and her job, doing inventory for $10.20 an hour, she was finally making it from one paycheck to the next.
Then, she began getting letters: The city Department of Human Services (DHS) was going after her for child support.
Amy Jones, director of Madison County Juvenile Court, says that over the past few years, the court has seen children brought in for disciplinary issues rather than delinquent offenses.
'Every red flag should have gone up' in the case of a suicidal transgender teen, national experts say. So far, the state-run facility has shed no light.
When minors face criminal charges, their parents often face financial ones. That’s true throughout the country.
In some California Counties for instance, it can cost as much as $30 per-day for room and board for parents whose children are locked up inside juvenile hall. The bills don’t stop there. When kids are strapped with ankle monitors or assigned a probation officer, parents are often charged for that as well.
Does a police officer need a warrant to pat you down? How should you recognize your right to remain silent? What could happen if you buy something that was stolen from a friend?
These are questions Great Falls High School students answered Monday and Tuesday while testing an educational game called “Juvenile Justice Jeopardy.”
Increasingly community programs and schools offer the program (Functional Family Therapy) — and in some cases, individual insurance and Medicaid cover the costs. Bottom line: where FFT is accessible, it is possible for troubled youths and families who otherwise could not afford treatment to benefit.
How would incarcerated youth transform Virginia's juvenile justice system? How would they train Richmond's entire police force?
A SHIFT IN THOUGHT
Child advocates say there is a key difference between the developmental needs of children and punishments deemed appropriate for fully formed adults.
From seattletimes.com: "After the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and a deadly attack on Dallas police, we asked viewers of our Under Our Skin video project to submit their reflections on race, policing and equality."
'We owe it to young people and their families to invest in community-based interventions that actually work'
Last week, the UNM Honors College hosted a roundtable discussion concerning juvenile detention and mass incarceration across the states and here in New Mexico. Experts discussed their research, local efforts and possible solutions to the epidemic.
Lawmakers in the nation’s capital are prepping for an upcoming vote that would spark major changes in the District’s juvenile justice system. Current policies governing court procedures and conditions of youth confinement are up in the air, so legislators are banking on the vote going as planned.
A year and a half after Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R - South Dakota) assigned a widely praised package of juvenile justice reforms, South Dakota school administrators say the law has left them with few options for addressing truancy, underage drinking and other smaller offenses by students.
Not many teenagers are convicted of sex offenses in Iowa's adult courts — Polk County had just one such conviction last year — but there’s a big debate over what should happen when that occurs.
State and national activists meeting in Oxnard on Friday lauded local efforts to reduce youth crime and steer young people away from juvenile detention, but they concurred with officials that more needs to be done.
New report documents urgent need to replace youth prisons with rehabilitation-focused alternatives
Juvenile justice advocates at this two-day conference call the statistics alarming. In New Jersey, African-Americans and Latinos make up 87 percent of the juveniles “waived up” or tried as adults for certain crimes if a county prosecutor requests it and a judge approves it. If convicted, those juveniles serve sentences in adult prisons.
“They can tell if you care or if you don’t.”
Seattle’s supervised injection center will be the first of its kind in the U.S., but New York is already considering a similar plan.
