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5/2/2025

Dem Senators Want Answers on Justice Grant Terminations

John Kelly

Two dozen senators have asked the Justice Department for answers about the decision to cut hundreds of grants already funded by Congress

Youth Services Insider

1/21/2025

Trump’s Day-one Actions Reverse Biden Decisions

John Kelly

A look at the potential child welfare and youth justice impact of Trump's day-one orders to roll back Biden-era actions

8/6/2023

Maybe the Way to Fix a Broken Justice System is Not to Use It

Opinion

Candace Hester

Candace Hester of the American Institutes for Research on fixing American justice systems by using them less, especially with youth

Youth Services Insider

11/16/2022

McCormack’s Dissent

John Kelly

The chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court had a lot to say about the child welfare system in her 12-page dissent of a recent appeal

Contributor Shay House writes that justice is Black people living in all of their glory.

5/25/2021

Justice is Black People Living in All of Their Glory

Shay House

Shay House writes that justice is Black people living in all of their glory, not being murdered because of the color of their skin.

4/30/2021

A Progressive Community Grapples With the Reality of Juvenile Justice Reform

Julie Reynolds Martinez

The small crowd carrying signs outside the county courthouse this week was classic funky Santa Cruz, folks milling about in T-shirts emblazoned with rasta and LGBTQ-themed logos, tie-dye and boho styles. But in this era of national protest over racial injustice, the protesters did not seek to reduce sentencing or end mass incarceration.

4/5/2021

Presence of School Resource Officers Debated in Small Towns, Too

Steven Yoder

By Steven Yoder

A meeting of the Rise up Kingston group. Photo courtesy of Rise Up
Two decades after schools across the country beefed up police presence on campus in response to the mass shooting at Columbine High, the uprising over the killing of George Floyd has prompted communities small and large to rethink that trend in the name of racial justice.

Youth Services Insider

1/28/2021

Bill Would Create One Million New Apprenticeships

The Imprint staff reports

By The Imprint staff reports

Known as “earn-and-learn” programs, apprenticeships could be a good way for foster youth to start careers in construction and other trades.
With lawmakers from both parties eager to help get idled Americans back to work, a bipartisan group has unveiled a bill that would put up almost $3.5 billion to create nearly 1 million new internships over the next five years, many of them for young people.

12/20/2020

Advocates Press New York Lawmakers to Shutter Database Containing Kids’ DNA

Susie Armitage

By Susie Armitage

State Sen. Robert Jackson (D) said he found the NYPD’s DNA collection practices “troubling.”
Critics say New York City isn’t moving quickly enough to shrink a contested, largely secretive database of DNA samples collected by police from potential “persons of interest,” including more than 1,600 minors and 8,000 people who have not been convicted of a crime. 

8/4/2020

Guards Without Masks and Tests With No Results

Jeremy Loudenback

As the virus spreads, one young man’s scary exit from California’s juvenile prisons By Jeremy Loudenback

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco
A 20-year-old Northern California man stepped into freedom late last month, after serving his time in one of the state’s three youth prisons – human warehouses now struggling to beat back the coronavirus before it spreads faster through a population of 775 young people who committed crimes as juveniles.

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