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OP-ED: Why Zero Tolerance Means More Kids in Jail
From Youth Communication: The United States imprisons more people than any other country — and a staggering number are juveniles. In fact, about half a million juveniles a year enter detention...
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Mental Health, Other Experts Weigh in on Illinois DJJ
Next step in consent decree reached after ACLU lawsuit lays out ambitious agenda Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/MCTYouths inside their confinement rooms at the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice...
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Island Sands to City Crimes: Pacific Island Youth in Crisis
Duncan Jackson (whose name was changed for this story) was sent from Fiji to Melbourne to live with his uncle when he was 17. Ultimately, drug dealing in the city led him to a suspended three-year jail...
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NCCD Receives Grant to Explore Juvenile Justice Funding Model
The California Endowment awarded the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and Third Sector Capital Partners a $250,000 grant. The California Endowment on Dec. 16 awarded the National...
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New Study to Focus on Impact of Family Visits for Incarcerated Youth
The Vera Institute of Justice has announced that it will conduct a two-year study to examine the possible impact of increased family visits on juvenile residents in Indiana. Recently, the Indiana...
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To Reduce Juvenile Recidivism at Rikers, New York City Bets on ABLE
Flickr NEW YORK — Jafar Abbas knows more than he’d like about recidivism – and its cruel costs. It robbed him of his youth, many prime years, too; more than a quarter century. It started out with...
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OP-ED: An Opportunity to Remake Juvenile Justice
It is the legislative season in Illinois and around the country, and that means advocates spend lots of time trying to improve the juvenile justice system and trying to defeat bills that would hinder...
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Holder Speaks Out Against Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Youths
video screenshot / USDOJIn a video, Attorney General Holder spoke out against excessive use of isolation and solitary confinement for young people with disabilities at juvenile detention centers. U.S....
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Evidence-Based ‘Gold Standard’: Coveted, Yet Controversial
It seemed a throwback to the days of the country doctor: Go to the patients instead of having them come to you. As a young intern in the pediatrics department at the University of Virginia’s medical...
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Analysis: Holes in the Evidence for Evidence-Based
THE EVIDENCE BEHIND EVEN THE MOST HIGHLY-REGARDED TREATMENT MODELS FOR COURT-INVOLVED YOUTH ISN’T NEARLY AS STRONG AS ADVERTISED Fourteen years ago, I authored my first major report on juvenile...
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