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Bad Mentoring Overheard While Waiting for the Elevator

Bad Mentoring Overheard While Waiting for the Elevator

Working in a juvenile court in metro Atlanta, I become a fly on the wall to some interesting conversations that take place among kids while they wait for appointments. Not long ago, while I was waitin…[more]

What Does Brain Development Have to do With Teen Behavior?

What Does Brain Development Have to do With Teen Behavior?

As I read about or listen to parents of adolescents, the most common comment I hear is that their kids seem to be regressing not progressing. Complaints of irresponsible behavior, disrespect, and unpr…[more]

Bringing Down Youth Prisons and Building a Better Place

Bringing Down Youth Prisons and Building a Better Place

I saw the movie Weeds in 1989. It was a “prison movie,” and I wasn’t particularly interested, but my friend Russell insisted that I watch it. Honestly, I do not recall much of the plot, but one …[more]

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R.F, age 17, Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, Miami, FL
D.F, age 17 Nevada Youth Training Center, Elko, NV
B.T, age 18, MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, Woodburn, OR
A.R, age 15, Spofford Detention, Bronx, NY [now closed]
Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, Miami, FL
Cutting
D.L, age 14, Sycamore Canyon Academy, Tucson, AZ
M.G, age 17, Youth Offender System, Pueblo, CO
F.P, age 17, Pima County Juvenile Detention Center, Pima County, AZ
A.D, age 15, Muscogee Youth Development Campus, Midland, GA
K.D, age 14, Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, Miami, Florida
E.P, age 14, El Paso Sheriffs Challenge Program, El Paso, Texas
B.T, age 17, Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall, Santa Cruz, CA
R.G, age unknown, Northwest Regional Youth Center, Kansas, MO
M, age 17, Cross Creek Residential Treatment Center, La Verkin, Utah

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Washington State’s High Court Rules Legislature Not Doing Enough to Fund Education

Washington State’s High Court Rules Legislature Not Doing Enough to Fund Education

The Washington State Legislature has failed to meet its constitutional responsibility to fund public education for the last three decades, according to a ruling by the state’s Supreme Court. “By the Legislature’s own terms, it has not met its d…[more]

Children of the 1980s, You are so Not Like Today’s Kids

Children of the 1980s, You are so Not Like Today’s Kids

Last month, the National Center for Education Statistics released a new report detailing numerous changes in the demographic and behavioral patterns of America’s youth over the last 30 years. “America’s Youth: Transitions to Adulthood,” publi…[more]

Food Pantry Helps Students in Need at Metro Atlanta University

Food Pantry Helps Students in Need at Metro Atlanta University

As the holidays draw closer, while many college students are spending late nights preparing for final exams and finishing projects, some students are just worried about finding the money to pay for food. At one college in the northern suburbs of Atla…[more]

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Fight Ahead Over Bold California Move to Close State-Run Youth Prisons

Fight Ahead Over Bold California Move to Close State-Run Youth Prisons

This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity California, often a trendsetter, could make history if it approves Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to close all state-run youth prisons and eliminate its state Division of Juvenile Justi…[more]

As the New Legislative Session Begins, One Bill Looms Above the Rest

As the New Legislative Session Begins, One Bill Looms Above the Rest

Monday marks the first day of the 2012 session of the Georgia General Assembly and while many bills will be considered and debated on the floor of the state Capitol, for those interested in juvenile justice, one piece of legislation gets all of the a…[more]

Study: Curfew Laws Reduce Juvenile Arrests

Study: Curfew Laws Reduce Juvenile Arrests

A recently published study found youth curfews reduce juvenile arrests. The study, published in The American Law and Economics Review by the University of California, Berkeley, showed arrests of youths were directly impacted by curfews, dropping almo…[more]

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Audit Shows New Georgia Children’s Agency Serving Fewer Children

Audit Shows New Georgia Children’s Agency Serving Fewer Children

In 2008, Georgia combined two state offices serving troubled youth in the name of effectiveness and efficiency. Now, an audit says the newly created office has resulted in little savings on overhead while managing to serve only about one-third as man…[more]

New Studies Fail To Find Substantial Link between Dietary Habits and ADHD in Children

New Studies Fail To Find Substantial Link between Dietary Habits and ADHD in Children

The results are in from two studies evaluating the effects of diet on children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). While neither study resulted in data conclusively linking dietary habits to ADHD, researchers suggest that children w…[more]

Home for the Holidays for Two Brothers, Part Two

Home for the Holidays for Two Brothers, Part Two

Erin Dale, a probation officer in Cobb County, Georgia’s juvenile drug court, has never come across a kid who started using marijuna as young as Zach Dykes. “Seven years old,” Dale said. “Pre-teen, like 11 or 12, is the earliest I’d seen be…[more]

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Alleged School Bullying Victim, Mom Speak Out On Georgia’s New Bullying Law

Alleged School Bullying Victim, Mom Speak Out On Georgia’s New Bullying Law

LISTEN: ‘It Was Just Pretty Much Assault Every Day’: Alleged School Bullying Victim, Mom Speak Out On Georgia’s New Bullying Law. Back to school season is in full swing and like so many other families around the country 13-year-old Alicyn and h…[more]

Jaheem Herrera’s Suicide Inspired Lawmakers To Beef Up Georgia’s School Bullying Policies

Jaheem Herrera’s Suicide Inspired Lawmakers To Beef Up Georgia’s School Bullying Policies

LISTEN: Jaheem Herrera’s Suicide Inspired Lawmakers To Beef Up Georgia’s School Bullying Policies, His Mother Says She’s Still Fighting For Justice It’s been two years since Masika Bermudez lost her only son Jaheem Herrera, but the heart-wren…[more]

Making Peace with the Dragon on One Atlanta Streetcorner – Heroin Stories, Part 3

Making Peace with the Dragon on One Atlanta Streetcorner – Heroin Stories, Part 3

["Making Peace with the Dragon on One Atlanta Streetcorner" is the final part of a three part series on heroin addiction. Check out this page for parts one and two.] Mona Bennett never leaves the house without her Braves baseball hat. The cap itself …[more]

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