How the staff at Wayne County Juvenile Center works to remind kids they're not forgotten

How the staff at Wayne County Juvenile Center works to remind kids they're not forgotten

Mike Langenright
Juvenile Justice News, Local News

DETROIT (WXYZ) — For the first time, we're getting an inside look at the juvenile justice system in Wayne County. 7 Action News' Kim Craig went inside Wayne County's Juvenile Detention Facility, what some people simply call "juvie," and while the kids inside may be accused of awful crimes, the staff works to remind them every day that they are not the forgotten.

Juvenile Court Statistics 2017

Juvenile Court Statistics 2017

Mike Langenright
Research Topics

Juvenile Court Statistics 2017describes delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases handled between 2005 and 2017 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. National estimates of juvenile court delinquency caseloads in 2017 were based on analyses of 577,407 automated case records and court-level statistics summarizing an additional 61,655 cases. Estimates of status offense cases formally processed by juvenile courts in 2017 were based on analyses of 58,768 automated caselevel records and court-level summary statistics on an additional 5,122 cases. The data used in the analyses were contributed to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (the Archive) by more than 2,500 courts with jurisdiction over 87% of the juvenile population in 2017.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 2.0

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 2.0

Mike Langenright
Research Topics, Reading Recommendations

The incarceration rate in the United States has been increasing dramatically since the 1970’s, sparking growing concerns about both the financial costs and human harms associated with having such a large portion of the population behind bars—and one that is disproportionately made up of members of racial and ethnic minority groups from low-income communities. The challenge that leaders in criminal justice face is how to reduce detention rates without increasing crime. Better yet, are there strategies that minimize both criminal activity and the prison population?

What If Courts Treated Young Sex Trafficking Victims Like Cyntoia Brown as People, Not Perpetrators?

What If Courts Treated Young Sex Trafficking Victims Like Cyntoia Brown as People, Not Perpetrators?

Mike Langenright
Ideas and Opinions

Slowly, state legislators and advocates are pushing legal reforms and diversionary programs that reflect the understanding that kids shouldn’t face a lifetime of consequences for decisions they made while their brains were still developing. Overall, the number of girls and boys in the juvenile justice system is decreasing. But even though girls make up less than a third of the nation’s roughly 800,000 juvenile arrests each year, they are the fastest-growing share of these arrests.

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