The Soros organization is beginning to set up programs in Alameda County, California for juvenile offenders to participate in restorative justice, allowing offenders to come to terms with their actions and to give them the needed support to move on with their lives.
As reported by Inside Bay Area:
Oakland attorney Sujatha Baliga says the juvenile justice [...]
GritsforBreakfast reported last week that California may virtually abolish their youth prisons in favor of having the counties administer juvenile detention on their own. Due to a 2007 court order, California had already transfered most of their juvenile detention responsibilities to regional centers run by the counties. However, some still remain under the [...]
In an update to our July 12 post Sunset on TYC? A Timeline and Update, the Houston Chronicle reported that the conservator of the Texas Youth Commission urged Governor Rick Perry to end the TYC’s conservatorship by July 31.
The conservator of the Texas Youth Commission has told Gov. Rick Perry that the embattled state juvenile [...]
The New York Times had an interesting article earlier this week about a creative way to keep juvenile offenders busy. According to the article, juveniles from Rhode Island are helping to restore classic American diners and learning valuable skills in the process.
Behind the razor wire at Rhode Island’s juvenile detention center, teenage offenders are [...]
The idea of Restorative Justice has long been the underlying philosophy in juvenile courts. Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow of the Georgetown University Law Center examines this philosophy in various contexts, including the juvenile courts, to discover what place it should hold. Below is the abstract to her article, Restorative Justice: What is it and [...]
