His story was one of many during a daylong series of testimony and affirmations and pleas to Philadelphia City Council during a hearing inside Council’s
Kate Burdick, staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center, pointed to a 2014 study of a facility where the two groups of juveniles were housed together: It found
Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, is hopeful that the high court will hear Dassey’s case. Her
The state Department of Corrections agreed to eventually ban its guards from using pepper spray and limit using solitary confinement to manage behavior of teen
The State of Wisconsin today agreed to settle a class action lawsuit, J.J. vs. Litscher, brought against the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake youth prisons. The young plaintiffs in the case challenged abusive practices such as solitary confinement and use of pepper spray, and were represented by the ACLU of Wisconsin, Juvenile Law Center and pro bono attorneys at Quarles & Brady. This settlement, pending court approval, comes a few months after the state of Wisconsin passed legislation to close the controversial facilities by 2021.
“Cyntoia’s sentence is wholly disproportionate for a 16-year-old girl, and therefore unconstitutional,” Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel for the Juvenile Law Center, said
Inmates represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and Juvenile Law Center last year sued over conditions at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake. U.S. District Judge
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