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Cyntoia Brown-Long of Tennessee, who was granted clemency from a life prison term this year after she served 15 years for murdering the man she called her pimp, hopes sharing her story can help other young women exploited by sex traffickers.
Based on a survey of states, the Council of State Governments Justice Center says that 42 do not offer the full array of available services and only 11 states use federal funds for helping youth under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
Youth advocates and government officials say implementation of the first phase of the state’s Raise the Age Law has resulted in significant declines in young people shuttled into the adult system.
A pair of New Zealand programs that involve tribal communities in setting parameters for punishment and rehabilitation offer useful models for U.S. policymakers hoping to dismantle mass incarceration, reports the co-director of Columbia University’s Justice Lab.
The girl’s grandmother said she was acting out because she suffers from sleep apnea. “How do you do that to a 6-year-old child and because she kicked somebody?,” the grandmother asked.
Three months after San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to shut down the city’s juvenile hall by the end of 2021 to end the jailing of young people, a new proposal by probation officials to expand therapeutic services while holding teens in custody has angered supporters of the search for alternatives to incarceration.
States are gradually increasing the minimum age at which young people can be prosecuted as adults—reversing a practice fueled by spurious fears of so-called “superpredators,” says a paper by the Campaign for Youth Justice. But there’s still a long way to go.
The teenager is charged with five counts of murder in the slayings of his family — including three young children — in Elkmont, Al. The Limestone County sheriff’s office says the gun was in the home illegally.
Washington, D.C., twice has eased provisions of a sentencing law for serious juvenile crimes and a third proposal is pending. U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has opposed every petition for early release under the law and is fighting the current amendment plan.
One of the women under scrutiny, Epstein’s onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been accused in several well-publicized lawsuits of overseeing efforts to procure girls and young women for him, a charge she has firmly denied.