Anyone who's ever advocated throwing juvenile offenders in prison to teach them a lesson ought to meet some of the youths who are in detention now. I did recently in Missouri, and I am a little ...
On May 22, in Douglas County court, Erik Jensen’s sentence for failing to intervene in a 1998 murder at age seventeen was changed from life without parole to his being parole-eligible after forty ...
should someone be held accountable for the rest of their lives for crimes they committed as a minor? According to the Supreme Court, some may not have to anymore. Very few can point to the exact ...
Ever wonder why Florida has outsourced the care of hundreds of troubled kids to private companies? Yesterday, we reported that prison operator Youth Services International donated $88,000 to Florida ...
A newly released state investigation finds staffing failures at the Wayne County juvenile jail from last spring when a 12-year-old boy said he was punched, stomped in the head and raped by other ...
This guest post is by Ariel Wetzel, an organizer of the Festival of Resistance and a PhD candidate at University of Washington. She is writing her dissertation on prisons in science fiction. King ...
should someone be held accountable for the rest of their lives for crimes they committed as a minor? According to the Supreme Court, some may not have to anymore. Very few can point to the exact ...