Juvenile Justice
Amid COVID-19 Fallout, Families of Remote Student Learners Face Fines, Prosecution
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Punitive truancy policies threatening fines, community service and arrest push families struggling with financial hardship to the edge.
Sentencing
Youth Justice Reforms Offer Model for Ending ‘Merciless’ Punishment of Adults: Paper
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Courts now accept that young people should be treated differently by the justice system. It’s time to apply the same principles of humane sentencing to adults, as many other countries do, argues a McGill University law professor.
Juvenile Justice
14-Year-Old Female Prisoner Exposes Flaws in PA Juvenile Justice
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Accused of murder, the girl is confined to an adult prison and exposed to harm and trauma due to the severity of her charges according to Pennsylvania law. State officials contend it is the safest place for her.
Juvenile Justice
Racial Gap in Juvenile Detention Widens
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Many youth facilities are increasingly holding almost entirely Black and Latino populations of teens, according to interviews with more than a dozen juvenile justice officials and attorneys in seven states.
Viewpoints
Nine ‘Urgent’ Steps to Improving Youth-Police Relations
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The frequency of incidents involving the increased use of force by police on adults is trickling down into officers’ treatment of children and youth. Two prominent youth advocates offer nine initial steps policymakers can take to protect young people from police abuse.
Juvenile Justice
New Hampshire Youth Detention Center Faces Allegations of Six Decades of Abuse
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Some 150 staffers at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center are accused of physically or sexually harming 230 children between 1963 and 2018.
Crime Prevention
Can We Lower Urban Violence Without Police?
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The common response to violence has traditionally involved law enforcement. But researchers and activists are turning to new community-based programs and practices that remove law enforcement from the center of the anti-violence conversation entirely, a webinar hosted by the Council on Criminal Justice heard Thursday.
Juvenile Justice
Utah Weighs College Courses for Incarcerated Youth
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Under a bill presented to state lawmakers this month, incarcerated young people can choose a variety of degrees or technical certificates to pursue. Utah State Rep. Lowry Snow, the bill’s author, called education “the antidote to recidivism.”
Juvenile Justice
California Supreme Court Says 15-Year-Olds Can’t Be Tried as Adults
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Two years after the passage of Prop 57, which allowed offenders as young as 14- or 15 to be tried as adults, the California Legislature amended the law to emphasize rehabilitation for juvenile offenders. The California Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday reverberated across the legal landscape
Juvenile Justice
Tennessee Supreme Court Examines Future of Life Sentences for Juveniles
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Tennessee has some of the harshest sentencing for minors who are convicted of murder in adult court.