Florida Legislature Must Stop Letting Prosecutors Charge Children As Adults
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I sit at my desk wondering why they don’t get it. Why do our legislators continue to do nothing to help hurting children and hurting families?
Florida Prosecutors Need to Limit Direct File of Juveniles Until Legislation Protects Them
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The state of Florida sends more juveniles through the adult court system than does any other state in the country.
Many Justice Reforms Are Proposed for Florida’s Legislative Session; Will Any Survive?
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Thanks to decades of tough-on-crime policies, Florida now has the third-largest prison population in the United States — nearly 100,000 people,
Intersectionality, Complexity of California Juvenile Justice Dramatized in ‘The 57 Bus’
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What should be the cost of a terrible mistake? On Nov. 4, 2013, two young people’s lives tragically intersected on a bus in Oakland, Calif. That afternoon, Oakland’s 57 bus carried Richard and Sasha home after school.
More States Need to Halt Prosecution of Youth as Adults
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This month marks one year since the passage of Proposition 57, a California ballot measure that prohibited district attorneys from filing charges against youth as young as 14 directly in adult criminal court through a practice known as “direct file.” The initiative passed with 64 percent of the vote, signaling strong popular support for curtailing prosecutorial authority and expanding access to the rehabilitative benefits of the juvenile justice system.