‘Waste money and waste lives’: Rehabilitation services in juvenile system plummet

In 2024, the Tarrant County Juvenile Board voted to end its contracts with Youth Advocate Programs because the board said the ...
The Advocate

From troubled teenager to juvenile offender advocate, here's how this Slidell woman helps

Slidell native Mary Kay Walden was an average teenager who came from a middle-class family, but she made friends with the wrong people when she was young. Her series of bad choices led to spending her ...
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Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...
The Times Leader

CAPITOL ROUNDUP: PCCD launches $5 million initiative to improve juvenile justice practices

WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s (PCCD) Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee this week approved the Commonwealth’s 2025 Juvenile Justice and ...

Teens graduate from Ingham CO. juvenile weapons court program

It’s run by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina in 30th Circuit Court, focusing on young people charged in weapons-related cases.
The Santa Fe New Mexican

As state spends $78 million a year on juvenile justice, state lawmakers urged to fund prevention, therapy programs

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Locking up children isn’t cheap. Incarcerating a child at one of New Mexico’s secure juvenile facilities costs ...