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A Different Approach to Crime in a New York Neighborhood Is Working, Report Says
Roxanna Asgarian / JJIERed Hook Justice Center, Brooklyn, N.Y BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- On a recent afternoon in a Red Hook courtroom, a disheveled young woman in a baggy blue sweatshirt was being sentenced...
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Center Aims to Keep Status Offenders Out of Courts
Fuse / Thinkstock In Florida, a statewide network of nonprofits working seven days a week, 24 hours a day provides community-based help for families of teens in crisis. In Clark County in Washington...
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NCCD Receives Grant to Explore Juvenile Justice Funding Model
The California Endowment awarded the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and Third Sector Capital Partners a $250,000 grant. The California Endowment on Dec. 16 awarded the National...
View ArticleGiving Kids a Choice: Interview with Adam Foss at 2013 Models for Change...
“One of my proudest stories out of the Choice program is a kid, we’ll call him Joe, a very, very involved gang kid… The first thing I noticed is his desire not to be on the other side of the glass, he...
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Obama Administration Calls Out School-to-Prison Pipeline
Graphic showing the tough path facing minors who drop out of school or work and the high racial disparity among those arrested. Courtesy of Project NIA. The White House sent a message to schools...
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Collaboration Seeks to Divert Kids from Juvenile Justice System
Rescuenav / FlikrAlbuquerque Public Schools Police A pilot program in Wayne County, Mich., provides police training on how to recognize and respond to mental health and substance abuse problems with...
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A ‘Second Chance’ for Former Graffiti Vandals
Bianca S. Flowers / JJIE NEW YORK -- The drawings that once were confined to his notebook were eventually found on light poles, sidewalk curbs and storefront gates along Roosevelt Avenue. Alexis...
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Easing Drug Laws the Answer to the Nation’s Drug, Prison Problem – Or...
Andrew Bardwell / Flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) cropped.The atmosphere of incarceration might change soon with the deliberation over the Smarter Sentencing Act, which deals...
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Author Nell Bernstein Talks About ‘Burning Down the House’ and Abolishing...
Nell Bernstein, author of "Burning Down the House" Imagine your child — or any child you love — kneeling in a pool of his own urine while handcuffed to other children for two weeks straight, forced to...
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A Celebration of Peace in a Community Touched By Gun Violence
Laura Bult / JJIEYoung girls sit together at the "Children's Day of Peace" event at the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway. NEW YORK — At a children’s summer party last Saturday afternoon at the Redfern...
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