Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (https://jjie.org/author/ryan-schill/page/2/)
"My parents keep on turning me in here. They call the drug dogs. I told them I didn’t have anything at the house but they didn’t believe me. They may be afraid I am poisoning my little brother or sister." This morning on Bokeh, a 17-year-old in Johnson County Juvenile Detention in rural Kansas.
Too many kids are starting to use alcohol and drugs, addiction rates are soaring and lives are being destroyed. Now is the pivotal moment to bring these issues front and center.
In a bid to decongest the nation’s overpopulated prisons, the Obama administration has proposed leniency for certain drug cases.
What started as a “Kickstarter-type” project quickly developed into New York City’s first ever film festival based solely on the topic of fatherhood.
The streets are about to become safer for black and Latino teens who have been increasingly subjected to routine stop and frisks by the NYPD.
“As the so-called ‘war on drugs’ enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it, and the approaches that comprise it, have been truly effective,” Holder stated.
The Fatherhood Image Film Festival explores the complexities of being a father and positive male role model.
Is Calif. lock-up deliberately and illegally depriving wards of education as part of a solitary-confinement regimen?
The Trayvon Martin Invitational became a symbol of solidarity for a community battered by the killings of two unarmed, young black men.
Without legal representation, young people “have no one to turn to whom they trust.”