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7 Mar 2009, 11:09 am by Steven Drizin
  False Guilty Pleas are the dirty little secret of the criminal justice system. [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 5:24 pm
The numbers of juvenile sex offenders have been increasing, according to the county's Department of Juvenile Justice Services. [read post]
14 Apr 2007, 12:16 pm
Department of Justice website recently which may be helpful for the layperson to understand how law enforcement develops a "sexual predator" investigation. [read post]
10 Oct 2018, 7:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 “The two main purposes of the juvenile justice system are to rehabilitate kids and to protect public safety, and it turns out these fees undermine both of those,” said [law professor Jeffrey] Selbin of UC Berkeley.Grits recently highlighted a new study showing that, when police departments focus on revenue generation through traffic tickets, their skewed priorities result in lower clearance rates for other crimes. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 8:59 am
"Grants from the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention are under review by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 10:33 am by Victoria Sweet
The counties and tribes are working collaboratively to meet the needs of dual status youth (juveniles who come into contact with both child welfare and juvenile justice systems). [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 8:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Yet more allegations of serious safety issues at the Gidding State School, indicating five years of reform and merger of agencies into the new Juvenile Justice Department have not yet resolved lingering problems. [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 9:45 am by Shiloh Carter
(Everyone, myself included, was pleasantly surprised when juvenile crime continued to fall after the Lege cut youth prison populations by an astonishing 2/3, and that result is mainly attributable to the efforts of juvenile probation departments.) [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 8:22 pm
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice announced today that it is firing six people who work at the Palm Beach Regional Juvenile Center in West Palm Beach in the wake of Eric Perez’s death. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 4:32 pm by James R. Marsh
In this op-ed published February 1, 2011, in the Baltimore Sun, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Laurie Robinson and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Acting Administrator Jeff Slowikowski discuss how the use of scared straight programs to prevent delinquency is ineffective and can harm youth. [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 6:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
When the Lege has taken up ad seg issues in the past they've found a virtual information vacuum on these topics.HB 1266 by Guillen is a companion bill to SB 1003 described above creating an Adult and Juvenile Administrative Segregation Task Force.HB 1388 by Workman would allow counties with populations above 335,000 to sentence juveniles to their own post-adjudication facility instead of sending them to youth prisons run by the Texas Juvenile Justice… [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 8:38 am by Ben Luftman
If you are worried about your son or daughter’s case being transferred to the adult justice system, contact a juvenile defense lawyer from Luftman, Heck & Associates. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 1:30 pm
Increasing punishments, removing kids from school, and referring them to the juvenile justice system led to higher rates of recidivism and an increased chance of involvement with the criminal justice system as an adult — all at a huge cost to the state, children, and their families. [read post]
22 Dec 2007, 9:25 pm
States Rethink Charging Kids as Adults, ABC, December 2, 2007 Youth Advocacy Project Related Web Resources: Juvenile Justice Program, Mass.gov Massachusetts Department of Youth Services The Massachusetts criminal defense law firm of Altman & Altman LLP represents juveniles charged with crimes in this state. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 5:31 am by MBettman
 A.W. was sentenced to seven months (until his 21st birthday) in the Ohio Department of Youth Services (“ODYS”) with a Serious Youth Offender (“SYO”) specification of three years. [read post]
9 May 2019, 11:30 am by McAleer Law Firm
In a recent Georgia personal injury case, the parents of a young man sued the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice alleging that their son was injured while he was detained at a youth detention facility. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 4:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Department of Education issued a letter to campus financial aid professionals to clarify that otherwise eligible youth who are confined in juvenile justice facilities are eligible to receive Federal Pell Grants.Addressing Collateral Consequences of a ConvictionNIJ (prior to th [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 12:06 pm by Liz Wu
According to recent figures from the Department of Justice, national youth violence rates are currently half what they were in the 90s. [read post]