What's on our radar this week
Each week, Juvenile Law Center gathers the latest studies, reports, and headlines from around the country. Here's what we've been reading:
- In Texas, it has been ruled that the state's foster care system is 'broken' and 'unconstitutional' under the 14th Amendment.
- Presidential Canidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a comprehensive list of LGBT policies she will work towards if elected. One goal is to address the increasing number of LGBT homeless youth.
- In Pennsylvania, a bill that will provide an aditional $42.5 million in federal funding to fight youth homelessness has entered its final stage.
- New York prison officials have announced a broad slate of reforms aimed at reducing the amount of time inmates spend in solitary confinement.
- A recent report in Kansas calls for an end to the privatized foster care system currently in place.
- A survey from national law firm Lowenstein Sandler found that Ohio is a leader in reducing the use of solitary confinement as punishment for youth.
- New rules in California aim to tighten perscriptions for foster youth.
- The new Every Student Succeeds Act will allow children in care to remain at their original schools along with other provisions aimed to help foster care youth.
- Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York announced his plans to pardon thousands of people convicted of nonviolent crimes as teens but have since led law-abiding lives.
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