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They could have been locked up for offenses ranging from theft to assault to armed robbery.
Instead, they planted vegetables at an urban farm, painted a mural to honor a community activist, staged a youth talent show, organized “safe parties” for teens at a local community center – away from the gunfire and stabbings outside.
"There were things going on at Rikers that were pretty horrific, and one of them was the conditions in the adolescent jail. ... it’s so difficult to get access to jails and prison systems that often the voices of the folks most directly impacted are left out of the public debate."
Child poverty increased in 35 of the biggest U.S. cities in the past eight years, and millions of children now live in families barely scraping by, a new analysis shows.
Maryland should invest in community-based treatment for juvenile delinquents instead of spending $225 million to build three juvenile prisons and replace buildings at a fourth, a state juvenile justice advisory panel urged.
A partnership between the federal government and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will provide $2 million over the next two years for juvenile justice reform efforts.
It's a dramatic change that puts at risk "not only the well-being of our children but the well-being of the nation as a whole," according to a recently released report. Although total federal spending is projected to increase an extraordinary 41 percent over the next 10 years, federal spending on children's programs will increase just 2 percent over the same decade. That's a sharp decline from the 10 percent increase in spending on kids between 2003 and 2013. So where is all that money going?
Nearly one in five children in the United States lived in poverty last year, with a much higher proportion of poverty among African-American and Hispanic children, new U.S. Census figures released Tuesday show.
States face no real federal pressure to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, a new report says.
The Lucas County Juvenile Detention Center in Toledo, Ohio, has 125 beds. On Wednesday, only 17 of them were occupied, says Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon, of the Lucas County Juvenile Court.
The 10-year-old boy stands with his back to the camera and his hands in his pockets in a bare white cinderblock cell in the juvenile detention center.