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WASHINGTON — A criminal justice reform bill with several provisions to help juveniles in prison and ease re-entry into the community cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee today.
The Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act sets core protections for juveniles in the states and provides state grants. The law was last reauthorized in 2002.
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. condemned “excessive” use of solitary confinement of children with mental illness in juvenile facilities.
It's time to ask whether our costly juvenile justice system is accomplishing what we want it to accomplish.
In Florida budgets, legislators’ pet projects may account for more new money than the neediest kids.
Under a bill pending in Congress states would be forbidden to lock up juveniles for status offenses.
A recent law change gave state attorneys power to send children directly to adult court without that hearing and without a juvenile judge’s go-ahead.
An administration truly concerned about drug policies’ effects on youths would be urgently reassessing its own War on Drugs.
Laura had turned her first trick on February 1, 2000, for a pimp named Quinn.
Every path to delinquency takes a different course, but the experience of childhood trauma is as close to a common marker as you will find.