Justice

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

On this week’s episode we present the second part of our career-spanning interview with Vinny Schiraldi, currently a visiting fellow with the Pinkerton Foundation. In part one we talked with Schiraldi about his formative years in youth justice and his first job leading a government agency. 

On this week’s episode we begin a two-part in-depth interview with Vinny Schiraldi, a firebrand for justice reform whose career has included leadership on alternatives to incarceration, advocacy, and government leadership.

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.

On this week’s episode we are joined by Claudia Rowe, one of the true veteran journalists in the child welfare and youth justice space. We talked about her experiences covering both systems in New York and in Washington State, but focused on her recently published book Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care.