During the 1990s, “three strikes” laws created automatic prison sentences for repeat adult offenders. It took decades to recognize the massive, costly failure of this inflexible approach. Yet ...

Ramsey County is seeing success through an initiative aimed at transforming the youth legal system. It’s called (Re)Imagining Justice for Youth, and shows how community intervention yields better ...

As students in the Rising Scholars Network’s weekly meeting asked a virtual attendee to unmute themselves over Zoom, someone joked, “Do we have to ‘press 5’ to accept the call?” It was a lighthearted ...

Last year, ICE detained 265 and deported 132 young people with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, according to a letter the ...

For Coconut Man and Ling Ling, the deck was stacked against them. The protagonists were surrounded, outnumbered and desperate. They were on a rescue mission to save two kids abducted by the Children ...

Cobb County Juvenile Court’s chief judge, Amber Patterson, spoke on the state of youth crime, foster care and the pressures facing vulnerable children at the Kiwanis Club of Marietta’s Thursday ...