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.

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. 

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.

By John Kelly Last month, Youth Services Insider reported on the absence of 2025 grant announcements coming out of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). There are only a few weeks left in the fiscal year, and it usually takes months to go through the process from when opportunities are published that includes an open application period and review process for all potential grantees before they receive grant notifications. 

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.