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“Some juvenile records are open to the public. Specifically, those who are over 14 and adjudicated delinquent of a felony have a public juvenile record. Moreover, once any portion of the juvenile record becomes public, then the entire record is public,” she said.
“That includes any non-felony portions of the record. Also, 12- and 13-year-olds who have been adjudicated of certain very serious felony offenses have a public juvenile record.”
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) -- 10 On your Side's Don Roberts has worked months and months to get an unprecedented look inside the juvenile justice system in Hampton Roads -- with the stories from the underage offenders themselves.
Finally, the City of Newport News agreed, but only if we do not show their faces. Don had a candid conversation with the juveniles about how they got behind bars and how they plan to change everything when it's time to get out.
A task force still wrangling over recommendations on juvenile strip-searches and shackling policies.
Michigan State University scholar Francisco Villarruel was selected by President Obama to serve on the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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.
Few California voters likely know much, if anything, about the state Board of Parole Hearings — from the qualifications of the 12 commissioners to their success in opening the prison gates for only those who can safely return to the streets.
And yet Gov. Jerry Brown’s sweeping overhaul of prison parole, Proposition 57, is squarely a question of whether those parole officials should be given additional latitude to offer early release to potentially thousands of prisoners over the next few years.
Maryland leaders are exploring whether the state should prohibit the use of shackles to restrain youths in courtrooms, detention facilities.
The Contra Costa County (California) Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to impose a moratorium on all fees charged to parents and guardians of children in the juvenile justice system.
When a panel convenes this week to discuss juvenile justice reform in Pensacola, it will have more than academic relevance for the local area. It’s an issue local officials have struggled with for a while.
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.
In 2007 Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson joined forces with the NYRPto transform the Baisley Park Community Garden into theCurtis “50 Cent” Jackson Community Garden. The space features a children’s learning garden, vegetable plots and a patio area. Recently this space has also started providing an alternative-to-detention program for troubled youths.
“They can tell if you care or if you don’t.”
A lot of progress has been made in Illinois, said Elizabeth Clarke, director at the Juvenile Justice Initiative, including a recent law requiring that children under age 15 have a lawyer present when they are questioned by police, and that those sessions are videotaped. And according to Clarke, the number of juveniles incarcerated in the state has declined overall.
The Harris County Juvenile Detention Center has kicked into "emergency staffing" mode given the 250-capacity detention center was housing 295 kids as of September 22.
While it’s certain that some Latino youth — born in the United States or not — are in the juvenile justice system across California, it is anyone’s guess how many and how their journey through the system affects them.
