Kristin Nicole Henning, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott, Marsha Levick and Jennifer Morinigo | December 23, 2020 | Children and the Law
The treatment of the children in two distinct areas of the law – child welfare and juvenile justice – is fraught with difficulty even under the best of circumstances. But with the onslaught of the COVID pandemic, the regular challenges and the need to protect children...
Lauren Klosinski | March 30, 2020 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
The article “Justices Put Juvenile Sentencing Back On The Front Burner” from Law360 discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case Jones v. Mississippi, which features a petition asking whether the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual...
Ella Fassler | June 13, 2019 | Children and the Law
This article was originally published by Truthout.org.It’s happening in Minneapolis. New Jersey. Arkansas. Upstate New York. Durango, Colorado. One by one, juvenile prisons are closing, or are slated to close, in response to child abuse reports, sustained pressure...
Frank P. Cervone | January 16, 2019 | Children and the Law
The following is an excerpt from an article originally published in The Legal Intelligencer. If you believe the rhetoric, the U.S.-Mexico border is a repugnant and dangerous place roiling with unseemly people sneaking into our country, smuggling drugs and escaping law...
