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...
Connor Radnovich | April 23, 2019 | Sentencing
The following is an excerpt from the Statesman Journal, part of the USA Today Network. Without the gift of a second chance early in his life, Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, is sure his story would have turned out differently. “I had a temper,”...
Elizabeth S. Scott and Marsha Levick | March 13, 2019 | Children and the Law
In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, Juvenile Law Center’s Co-Founder Marsha Levick and Columbia Law Professor Elizabeth Scott discuss the vulnerability of children when they enter the justice system.Marsha and Elizabeth agree that much has improved since “adult...
Lauren Klosinski | September 25, 2018 | American Indian Law
In a recent study on Native American youth involvement injJustice systems completed by the U.S. Government Accountability office, the analysis of available data found that: “the number of American Indian and Alaska Native (Native American) youth in federal and state...
Rachel Lippmann | April 26, 2018 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider the constitutionality of a 241-year prison sentence given to a St. Louis man more than two decades ago. The high court on Monday announced it would not hear the case of Bobby Bostic. The justices gave no reason for their...
