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Freelance journalist Maggie Lee is based in Atlanta where she covers state and local governments.
If minority students face harsher punishments than white students for the same school infractions in many schools, as plenty of studies say they do, there are also people who want to change that, and the struggle is happening in courts, in state legislatures, in classrooms and at school board meetings.
A set of publications aims to help prevent suicide among youth in the juvenile justice system.
South Florida’s Broward County School Board voted unanimously to sign new rules, written by many hands, which are meant to drive down arrests and their unintended consequences in the state’s second most populous school district. The Nov. 5 Memorandum of Understanding approved by the school board has its signatories promise “appropriate responses and use of resources when responding to school-based misbehavior.”
Official interviews and evidence gathering will start soon in Meridian, Miss., a year after federal officials accused several agencies of operating a schoolhouse-to-jailhouse pipeline.
The man who took the fight against life without parole sentences for juveniles to the U.S. Supreme Court said he is optimistic about juvenile justice trends, but said there is much work to do in a few areas, most especially around housing youth in adult lockups.
California's Assembly Bill 12, signed in 2010, would extend foster care up to age 21.
Some of the most important questions about evidence in child welfare cases now rolling through courts have to do with Shaken Baby Syndrome.
The National Association of Counsel for Children 36th National Child Welfare, Juvenile, and Family Law Conference opens this morning.
Leaders and experts explore using brain science to craft new juvenile justice policies at a forum at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The MacArthur Foundation announced it will increase its juvenile justice reform funding by some $15 million, a major part of which will be used to establish the new Models for Change Resource Center Partnership.
“Right now there are no go-to places to get the kind of information, resources, toolkits, [and] access to colleagues who have ‘been there done that,’” for would-be juvenile justice reform advocates, said Laurie Garduque, director of justice reform for the MacArthur Foundation.