North Carolina’s Raise the Age Will Still Leave Behind Some Young People
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This is the first in a series of reports investigating the history and development of youth justice in the state.
Raise the Age Advances in NC, Dies in Missouri; Texas Uncertain
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Supporters of raising the age of criminal responsibility in North Carolina are optimistic as legislation heads to the Senate after a 104-8 approval vote in the General Assembly.
The overwhelming vote Wednesday is a major step in the last state that still automatically charges 16-year-olds as adults, no matter the crime.
South Carolina Close to Raising Age for Juvenile Offenders to 17
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This week South Carolina lawmakers approved “raise the age” legislation that would increase the upper age of juvenile jurisdiction from 16 to 17 for most young offenders. All but nine states already consider teenagers juveniles until they turn 18.
Texas Juvenile Justice Reformers: ‘Raise the Age’ Will Rise Again
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Supporters of overhauling juvenile justice in Texas cheered the passage of two state bills even as some mourned the failure of a third that would have stopped the prosecution of 17-year-olds as adults.
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to restructure the state Juvenile Justice Department’s network of youth correctional facilities to keep teens closer to their homes in the sprawling state — a method that has been increasingly deployed in large states. And they voted to stop hauling kids into court for truancy, currently a misdemeanor criminal charge.
Reporter’s Notebook: Teenage Idiocy a Huge Gamble in Many States
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I was 13, and my girlfriends and I had just begun to hang out with some older boys. It was the summer before the eighth grade, and they were 16, going to be juniors, and they had a car. We’d hang out late at night, each telling our mothers that we were at the other friend’s house, and we’d mostly hang out on the jungle gyms at the park or drive out to the Las Vegas desert and drink wine coolers.
OP-ED: How One State Turned Around Its Juvenile Justice System
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Fewer than 15 years ago, Connecticut’s network of contracted programs to rehabilitate juvenile offenders was in jeopardy. How did Connecticut turn the tide?
North Carolina Considering Raising Misdemeanor Age
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A senior prank water balloon fight in North Carolina got out of hand, leaving seven youths arrested that day and charged with disorderly conduct.
Jonathan Lippman: New York’s ‘Pro-Activist’ Judge
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A life-long New Yorker, Jonathan Lippman, chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, uses his role as the chief judge to promote alternatives to incarceration and backed the creation of nine pilot community courts, called Adolescent Diversion Courts.
Juvenile Justice Reforms Prominent in New Bill by U.S. Senators Booker and Paul
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Two first-term senators from opposite sides of the aisle introduced legislation Tuesday banning the use of juvenile solitary confinement.
The Two Sides of Raise the Age in New York
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It was the tail-end of rush hour on a Thursday in March, and commuters were packed tightly onto a Brooklyn bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Not all of them got out alive.