From The Associated Press August 2, 2009 LA tries test to find kids likely to join gangs By CHRISTINA HOAG (AP) LOS ANGELES — Gang prevention cop Jeff Norat...
From The New York Times August 10, 2009 Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System By SOLOMON MOORE FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio — The teenager in the padded...
From The Wall Street Journal Health Blog August 10, 2009 Justice System Struggles With Mentally Hill Kids Treating mentally ill kids is tough enough to begin...
Rachel Maddow at Jacob’s Pillow http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/08/10/rachel-maddow-on-dance-art-and-society/ Here’s another reason to love Rachel...
OJJDP Joins Initiative To Promote Afterschool Programs The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is pleased to announce its support of...
From Edutopia Troubled Teens Explore Their Artistic Side By molly Created 2009-01-28 15:59 Live a day in my shoes What you think you would do? You think you...
From The New York Times August 25, 2009 Report Cites Abuse at State Juvenile Prison Centers By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE ALBANY — Children at four juvenile...
From The New York Times August 29, 2009 BIG CITY Girls in Trouble, Humiliated and Injured at the Hands of the State By SUSAN DOMINUS There were cameras all...
From latimes.com September 3, 2009 Opinion Keeping at-risk kids out of jail -- it's an art 'Tough on crime' gang injunctions just funnel teens into jail. But...
From the Kansas City Star September 13, 2009 When children kill, punishment varies By JOE LAMBE A Kansas City, Kan., girl charged with murder at age 13 faces...
From Therapy and Expression September 18, 2009 Billye Proctor Shaw, Texas Commission on the Arts Chair, Austin Kudos to Sheriff Les Bruce and the Center for...
From The New York Times September 27, 2009 LIVES The Lost Student By MICHELLE KUO Patrick was the sort of student who made a teacher curious. There was ...
From The Atlantic August 13, 2009 Sentenced to nine years in prison at the age of sixteen for carjacking, R. Dwayne Betts discovered something unexpected while...
From The New York Times October 9, 2009 Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment Among Dropouts By SAM DILLON On any given day, about one in every 10 young male...
From The New York Times October 9, 2009 Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment Among Dropouts By SAM DILLON On any given day, about one in every 10 young male...
From: Donnielle Rome, ATR-BC ArtAccess Coordinator Queens Museum of Art p.718-592-9700 x136 f. 718-592-5778 Dear directors, writers, artists, academics,...
From The New York Times October 13, 2009 EDITORIAL How to Flunk Test-Giving Millions of Americans are trapped at the margins of the economy because they lack...
From The New York Times November 8, 2009 Weighing Life in Prison for Youths Who Didn’t Kill By ADAM LIPTAK TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — There are just over 100...
Post #7 Literature Review November 8, 2009 by Emily Thompson http://classes.tametheweb.com/emilythompson/2009/11/08/post-7-literature-review/ I would like...
From The New York Times November 15, 2009 How Old Is Old Enough? By CATHERINE RAMPELL THIS past week the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether children...
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES NOVEMBER 13, 2009, An Advocate for Prisoners Argues for Prisons, Too By DAVID GONZALEZ David Gonzalez/The New York Times The Rev....
From Montgomery Media, Montgomery County Pennsylvania November 16, 2009 Wyndmoor author takes on juvenile justice system To those who don’t see the juvenile...
From Syracuse Post-Standard November 16, 2009 Editorial New York's juvenile justice system needs more than a 'friendly' monitor The U.S. Justice Department...
From Prevention Action Tough times – hard evidence – no justice In good economic times we think about what we can do to improve children’s lives. Perhaps...
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES NOVEMBER 16, 2009 College Ivy Sprouts at a Connecticut Prison By ALISON LEIGH COWAN Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times The...
From The Wall Street Journal Getting Out and Staying Out By CAROL HYMOWITZ Mark Goldsmith didn't expect to go to jail when he volunteered to be "principal for...
From The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs On November 16, 2009, the Youth Reentry Task Force of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...
From Prison Photography: The Practice of Photography in Sites of Incarceration By Robert Gumpert As some of you know, since 1994 I’ve been documenting the...
From KGO-TV San Francisco November 24, 2009 Troubled teens turn to playwriting for creative outlet SAN MATEO, CA (KGO) -- A San Mateo County-based mentoring...
From The New York Times December 9, 2009 Prison Population Up, Despite Drop in 20 States By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The prison population in...