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• De-Criminalizing Children

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 135
  I so agree with this opinion.  Children should not be sent to adult jails PERIOD.  Nor should children be tried as adults.  Children are children and the nature of a crime doesn’t change the fact they are children. As many as 150,000 children are sent to adult jails in this country every year — often in ...
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• The Age of Innocents

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  Barney Brown should have listened to his mother that fateful day in 1970 when she told him to stay home while she was at work.
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• Two held for ransacking, setting houses on fire in Delhi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) A teenaged leader of a juvenile gang and his 20-year-old accomplice have been arrested here for ransacking houses in government colonies of south Delhi and then lighting fires inside them, police said Tuesday.The teenager, whose name cannot be disclosed under juvenile justice rules, and his ...
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• Texas’ mentally ill juveniles freed by loophole

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  TYLER, Texas | A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree. Both were released by the Texas Youth Commission because the agency wasnt equipped to treat their mental ...
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• Loophole lets mentally ill Texas juveniles go free

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree. Both were released by the Texas Youth Commission because the agency wasnt equipped to treat their mental illnesses and had ...
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• Juvenile Justice Roundup

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 484
  First, there is word that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee completed markup of S. 678, legislation to renew of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act of1974.  Main Justice posts, " Senate Panel Approves Juvenile Justice Bill Renewal . The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed legislation today that ...
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• New York’s Juvenile Prisons Are a Crime

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
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• De-Criminalizing Children

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 158
  De-Criminalizing Children As many as 150,000 children are sent to adult jails in this country every year — often in connection with nonviolent offenses or arrests that do not lead to conviction. That places them at risk of being raped or battered and increases the chance they will end up as career criminals.
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• Juvenile Justice

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 484
  Todays New York Times carries the editorial, " De-Criminalizing Children ."  It addresses renewal of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act of 1974, which the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to take up today. As many as 150,000 children are sent to adult jails in this countryevery year ...
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• Judge Mireles dies with family at his side

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 158
  Judge Mireles dies with family at his side Someone else will have to turn on the lights at the Bexar County Courthouse.
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• Juvenile Criminal Offenders-What Happened to the Predicted Crime Waves?

  
  Crime in America.Net — Authority: 128
  Crime news from Crime in America.NetGentlereaders: For those of us who have been in the criminal justice system for several decades or more, we’ve been exposed to a series of criminologists predicting yet another wave of juvenile crime leading to inevitable large increases in national violent crime for years to ...
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• Use of brain neuroscience in juvenile justice matters: Law Review Article post

  
  Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty — Authority: 133
  Thanks to the Neuroethics and Law Blog for the information regarding the final version of "The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science in Juvenile Justice" (Notre Dame Law Review, 2010) article.  Technorati Tags: psychology , neuropsychology , neuroscience , juvenile justice , SCOTUS , adolescents , ...
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• Paterson Admin. to Judges: Stop Sending Kids to State Facilities

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 158
  Paterson Admin. to Judges: Stop Sending Kids to State Facilities After repeated fits of rage at home a 16-year-old is about to head upstate to whats been described as one of the most brutal juvenile detention facilities in New York.
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• Judge Acquits Boy, 12, in Baby’s Murder, Says He Didn’t Intend to Kill

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  A Georgia judge this morning found a 12-year-old boy not guilty of murdering his baby cousin, saying that the defendant hadnt intended to kill the five-week-old girl. Left alone in a car with the infant while her mother shopped, "he was scared and didn’t know what to do so he tried everything he could to get the ...
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• Illinois AFSCME Council 31 to Pat Quinn on Refusing WBEZ Access to St. Charles Juvenile Prison: “… [A]n unacceptable breach of the public’s right to know”

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 479
  (Chicago, IL) — December 11, 2009 . Just ahead of Illinois AFSCME Council 31’s endorsement decision in the Illinois 2010  Democratic primary for governor, the state’s largest union is taking a swipe at Governor Pat Quinn ’s refusal to open up Illinois juvenile justice centers in St. Charles and elsewhere ...
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• Incarcerated KIDS should be kept CLOSE TO HOME

  
  Schizo America — Authority: 103
  CYA counselors beating a young ward. Ella Baker Center’s Books Not Bars just sent me the following email: As 2009 draws to a close, we’re happy to report that the dwindling population in the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) forced the closure of one of the state’s most abusive youth prisons, Southern ...
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• MUST-READ: Jennifer Roback Morse explains why two-parent families matter

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 557
  Article here in Policy Review , a publication of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Excerpt: A free society needs people with consciences. The vast majority of people must obey the law voluntarily. If people don’t conform themselves to the law, someone will either have to compel them to do so or protect ...
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• Juvenile justice to mental healthcare - a lot under NHRC scanner (Dec 10 is International Human Rights Day) (Repeating for all needing)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  By Mayank AggarwalNew Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Mental healthcare, prison and hospital conditions, bonded labour and juvenile justice are some of the “priority areas” for India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as it observes International Human Rights Day Thursday. Saying the NHRC was “not a toothless ...
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• Conference focuses on lowering youth lock up rates

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 158
  Conference focuses on lowering youth lock up rates Iowans who work in the fields of education, welfare and juvenile justice will gather this week for a conference focused on reducing youth incarceration rates, especially for minorities. Brad Richardson is the research director at the University of Iowa’s ...
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• We are not a toothless body: NHRC (Dec 10 is Human Rights Day)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  By Mayank AggarwalNew Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is “not a toothless body” as is often alleged and 99 percent of its recommendations on key issues are accepted, says its member P.C. Sharma. “NHRC is a recommendatory body. The parliament has enacted it that way. But at the ...
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