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 [...]
Marian Wright Edelman examined the problems that continue to plague the Texas Youth Commission and concludes that Congress Must Act to Protect Young Detainees from Abuse.
In recent years, the Children’s Defense Fund has received horrifying reports of the physical and sexual abuse of children and teens in juvenile correctional facilities. There are accounts of children [...]
Courtney Fain recently published What’s in a Name? The Worrisome Interchange of Juvenile “Adjudications” with Criminal “Convictions” (.pdf) in the Boston College Law Review.
Abstract: Juvenile delinquency adjudications are increasingly considered to be criminal convictions for purposes of sentencing enhancement in subsequent adult proceedings, leading to a renewed call for extension of the right to a [...]
Several states are weighing legislation to that would prevent juveniles from receiving life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to an excellent article recently in Christian Science Monitor States reconsider life behind bars for youth. There are currently nearly 2,400 juveniles currently incarcerated without the possibility of parole across the nation, a situation that [...]
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 [...]
