It was reported in the Houston Chronicle in the article ACLU Sues State Juvenile Prison System, that the American Civil Liberties Union was suing the Texas Youth Commission due to allegations that the TYC subjected female inmates to mistreatment and abuse.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against the Texas Youth Commission on [...]
Cindy Lederman, a judge in Miami-Dade County’s juvenile court, describes some of her cases in a vignette of some of the crushing decisions that have to be made in the lives of children whose stories at times defy comprehension -
I’ve been a judge for 15 years in Miami Dade’s Juvenile Court. This is the most [...]
The Arizona Daily Star reports in New approach to juvenile crime on a remarkable shift in Arizona’s juvenile justice system:
If you had visited the juvenile lockup in Pima County a decade ago — at the height of the adult-time-for-adult-crime campaign — you’d have seen young people sleeping in the cafeteria because of overcrowding. If you’d [...]
It was announced on June 6, 2008, in the Waco Tribune-Herald and Grits for Breakfast that the Texas Youth Commission will be replacing its long term isolation program for violent incarcerated youths with a “behavior management program” due to staffing shortages.
A staffing shortage at a local Texas Youth Commission facility should be alleviated by [...]
A recent op-ed in the New York Times, Children in Adult Jails reminds us that states continue to classify ever larger numbers of young offenders as adults.
Children who are confined to adult jails are at greater risk of being raped, battered or pushed to suicide. They also are more likely to become violent criminals than [...]
