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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.
The students in detention at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore aren’t staring at white walls—they’re meditating and practicing yoga as part of the Holistic Me after-school program. Here’s how the project, created by the Holistic Life Foundation, works: Holistic Me hosts 120 male and female students in a program that runs from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and involves yoga, breathing exercises and meditative activities. Disruptive students are brought to the Mindful Moment Room for breathing practices and discussion with a counselor and are instructed on how to manage their emotions.
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.
