JJIE Reporter Wins Award for Social Justice Coverage
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Karen Savage, a recent New York-based reporter for JJIE and Youth Today, has received The Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Social Justice Reporting.
The Story of Ronald Freedom
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“I’m free today, Richard. I’m breathing free air.”
That was three years ago. My friend Ronald Franklin had finally been released. Incarcerated since he was 13, and now, at 20, he was free.
How to Move an Issue From a Kitchen Table to City Hall
It was a particularly warm June day, and we were sitting at a kitchen table talking with a mother distraught about the recent arrest of her teenage son, who was being held pretrial at the adult jail in Philadelphia.
Advocates Pass Along Lessons Learned at Conference on Closing Youth Prisons
They arrived sharing the same goal of closing youth prisons, the same desire to address the racial and social disparities they see daily and the same belief that rehabilitating youth is always smarter and more moral than locking them away.
We Can Help You Reduce Use of Solitary in Your Juvenile Facility
By now, you have probably heard about Kalief Browder. Kalief spent three years in Rikers Island, two of them in solitary confinement, before charges against him were eventually dropped.
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Peep Game, Me, Before It’s Too Late
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At 15 I know that it seems like you’ve got nothing to live for and so much to die for. From trying to come up as a little homie to living lavish with those Ecstasy pills you’re running through like candy.
I’m telling you now you will never settle the scores for those deaths. In the process of your pain you will only harm innocent people that had no hand in either of your losses.
Head of Casey’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Sounds Alarm for Reformers
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The director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's* Juvenile Justice Strategy Group sounded an alarm Monday about a slowing of progress and an increase in the length of time youth are being incarcerated in some of the 300 sites of the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative.
Young Adult Prison Movement Deepens Reliance on Incarceration, Shortchanges Reform
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There is growing interest nationwide in designating specialized prison space for young adults under age 25. Although these projects are often couched in the language of treatment and developmental differences, specialty facilities could expose states to a pitfall of multitiered prison systems: targeting some with superficial reforms, while leaving others out.
California Community Non-profits Get $1.3 Million to Push for Juvenile Justice Policy Change
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Last week, a group of California-based foundations announced a $1.3 million investment into non-profit community-based organizations in 11 of the state’s counties, including Los Angeles, through the Positive Youth Justice Initiative.
Juvenile Court School: Home to Broken Childhoods and Buried Gifts
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Screaming and banging. Shouting and crying. Cussing and fighting. Gang signs and threats. Suicide watches and solitary. Broken hearts and smashed souls. Lost and betrayed childhoods.
New York State Resolves to Raise the Age for Juvenile Court Proceedings
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And then there was one. New York State legislators voted Sunday night to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18, capping a contentious budget fight and giving supporters of the measure victory after years of frustration. The vote leaves North Carolina as the only state which still prosecutes 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, although that may change later this month.
A More Perfect Justice System for Our Youth Is Coming — But Slowly
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What is right will always overcome wrong, even when what is wrong is believed to be right.
New Data Powers Progress for Teens, Also Creates Problems, Experts Say at Conference
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Data from growing research have stormed into the juvenile justice and child welfare fields over the past two decades, providing more raw material to help troubled teens than ever before.
The Unfinished Business of Juvenile Justice
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Lawmakers in New York, North Carolina, Missouri and Texas are currently debating proposals that would move 16- or 17-year-olds (or both) out of the adult criminal justice system and into the juvenile court.