The St. Petersburg Times report When students are suspects, lines blur, Police in Florida sometimes go beyond their legal authority when interrogating suspects while they are in school, raises the specter of an all too common occurrence. As many commentators have noted, one of the unintended consequences of “zero tolerance” policies in schools has been [...]
Girl Scout Troop 1500, led by social worker Julia Cuba, has a unique mission - the approximately 50 members make a monthly visits to Gatesville Women’s Prison, a chance for the scouts of Troop 1500 to see their moms. In the documentary of the same name by Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein, the filmmakers follow [...]
Lawyers have filed a certiorari petition with the U.S. Supreme Court in Pittman v. South Carolina, seeking review of the Constitutionality of Pittman’s sentence of 30 years without possibility of parole given that he was 12-years old at the time of the offense. Pittman’s trial was sensationalized by his age and his defense that his [...]
One of our previous posts Texas Youth Commission blasted for keeping juveniles in isolation or days or weeks at a time mentioned a memo created by Will Harrell, Chief Ombudsman Texas Youth Commission (TYC) and sent to Dimitria Pope, Acting Director at TYC. Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast has posted a link the full [...]
Social Networking website MySpace announced that an agreement had been reached with 49 State Attorneys General on instituting measures to protect children using its site from sexual predators. MySpace had previously drawn fire from attorneys general alleging it had become a haven for pedophiles sexually soliciting children online and failing to cooperate with law enforcement. [...]
