juvenile justice

Youth justice advocates marched from a Bronx detention center to a local park Tuesday afternoon, calling for long-stalled statewide reforms.

Eduardo Mundo and David Muhammad urge California’s governor to sign a law that would end the practice of indefinite probation terms for youth in the state

Since 2023, youth as young as 13 have been held in solitary confinement units for weeks or months inside a Shelby County, Tennessee, juvenile detention center.

By John Kelly Heading into the final month of fiscal 2025, there was nary a grant announced by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the division of the Justice Department that funds everything from facility standards to mentoring and child protection. 

In Ramsey County — in exchange for lesser charges and a possible clean record — some teenagers can now turn to restorative justice.

Crime is at a 30-year low in Washington, DC. Yet echoing the past, the fear-inducing rhetoric has heated up.

Legislation that would have limited childhood sexual assault survivors’ ability to sue their perpetrators met a decisive end this week. 

By Vinny Schiraldi As he announced the deployment of National Guard troops to the streets of our nation’s capital, despite crime being at historic lows in Washington, President Trump also called for prosecuting 14-year-olds as adults in the city.

Advocates for incarcerated youth decry Trump-driven reductions in prison rape protections as facility psychologist pleads guilty to sexual assault of teens in her care.