Violence by Police, Against Police Risks Tearing Country Further Apart
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Gavin Long was not among the peaceful crowds on July 10, the week before he savagely murdered three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers.
JJIE Reporter Arrested in Baton Rouge While Covering Protest
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A JJIE reporter assigned to cover the protests in Baton Rouge has been arrested. The reporter, Karen Savage, 50, was arrested at approximately 8 p.m. Central Time Sunday.
Continuing a Community Activist’s Lifelong Work in Harlem
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Steve Ice Waters was a kid when his family moved to Harlem from Los Angeles in 1980. Harlem was beginning to see the early signs of what would become a crack epidemic.
Troubled No More, Youths Bring Stories of Their Resilience to Probation Professionals
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Twenty-two years seems like an awfully short time to already be talking about redemption. But the young man sitting on the velvet couch in the splendor of the Omni Parker House Hotel’s mezzanine is living proof that for someone who has survived the juvenile justice system in America, there is a fine line between ending your life and turning it around.
Racial, Ethnic Disparities Stubbornly Endure in Juvenile Justice System, Expert Says
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It’s crucial to have policies and practices based on objective criteria, Davis said. When professionals go with their gut, he or she is most likely to let bias sneak into the decision-making process.
Rep. Kennedy Calls Juvenile Justice the Next Civil Rights Issue
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Rep. Joseph Kennedy III drew on the spirit of his grandfather Robert F. Kennedy this morning, casting juvenile justice as an urgent civil rights issue in a rousing and eloquent keynote address at the inaugural Probation System Reform Symposiu
Perps or Pupils? Safety Policy Creates Prisonlike New York City Schools
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This story was produced in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity
When Minerva Dickson first saw her high school she thought it looked like a prison. After her first week she realized how right her initial impressions were. Every day when she arrived at the Thomas Jefferson Campus in Brownsville, Brooklyn, she waited in a line that snaked out onto Pennsylvania Avenue. She would shuffle up two steps passing beneath words from Abraham Lincoln inscribed on the neo-classical pediment: “Let Reverence for the Laws Become the Political Religion of the Nation.”
Next, she reached into her pocket for her identification card and slid it through a machine. When it recognized her, it blurted an approving beep and a green light would flash.