Engaging the Families of Youth in Custody: An Essential Goal for Juvenile Justice Practitioners
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With a new year upon us, now is the ideal time for juvenile justice practitioners to reflect upon their work and set goals for the months to come.
How to Empower Justice-involved Youth Leaders
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Across the youth justice community, the leadership and expertise of justice-involved youth remains untapped or is utilized in ways that disempower and mirror the exploitative systems that we, as advocates, seek to dismantle.
New York Activists Mourn ‘Elder Statesman’ Who Fought for Justice for Slain Son for 24 Years
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More than a week since Christmas, Donna Carter-Heyward’s Brooklyn apartment still had the cozy warm atmosphere of the holidays.
California Is Becoming a Model of Juvenile Justice Reform, Thanks to Progressive Legislation
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California has evolved from having one of the most draconian, costly juvenile justice systems to becoming a model of reform.
Oakland Demonstrates Right Way to Use Restorative Justice With Teens
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Restorative justice is a centuries-old approach that seeks to empower people to address the harms, needs and obligations that arise when a crime has been committed by bringing together victims, offenders and members of their respective communities.
Education Behind Bars: Can Young People Be Taught in Adult Justice System?
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Is it possible to educate youth in the adult criminal justice system? As Marshall Project reporter Eli Hager recently observed, “In the U.S., there is adult jail and there is school, and the two rarely go together.”
2008 Recession Helped Create Many More Homeless Youth, Sociologist Says
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Medical sociologist Eric Wright’s work has taken him into parks, abandoned buildings, shelters and other places off the beaten path.
The Young and Homeless Have Hard Time Avoiding Arrest
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They’re on our streets. In our schools and colleges. They’ve probably taken your fast-food order. But you wouldn’t know it.
JJDPA Reauthorization Passes Congress After 16 Years
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Congress reauthorized a key juvenile justice bill today, handing a win to youth advocates who have fought to update the legislation for more than a decade.
The House backed the Senate’s version of the bill Thursday morning, sending it to the White House for President Donald Trump to sign. The Senate unanimously approved a five-year reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) on Tuesday night using a fast-track procedure that requires the support of every senator.
How New York City Achieved an Historic Drop in Youth Detention Admissions
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This year has been one of the most transformative years in history for New York’s juvenile justice system. Just a month after one of New York’s most groundbreaking juvenile justice reforms, Raise the Age, became a reality, New York City took a wrecking ball to the decades-old Spofford Juvenile Detention Centers in the Bronx.