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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A bill to ban ski masks in public places in Philadelphia became law this week. The bill passed with overwhelming support in City Council in November and Mayor Jim Kenney let it become law Thursday without his signature, citing a high risk of selective enforcement against young people.

On December 1, 2023, Juvenile Law Center, Center for Children’s Law and Policy, and 50 national, regional, and Louisiana based youth advocacy organizations and academics submitted an amicus brief in support of the emergency removal of children – nearly all of whom are Black youth – from Angola, a former death row prison in Louisiana.

After more than a year in a juvenile detention facility in Orange County, California, Maria Rivera’s son was released back in 2010. As he exited incarceration, the Orange County Probation Department handed Rivera a bill for $16,372, the fees officials charged for keeping him in custody.

September 2017 marked the beginning of a new school year and the beginning of my first full school year as an educator with Pittsburgh Public Schools. Teaching at a 6-12 school for the first time, I was excited for the new experience.

One Philadelphia, Pennsylvania juvenile jail is keeping youth in overcrowded, filthy conditions. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the situation has grown so dire that the city has now requested that a judge hold the state in contempt of court for failure to address the crisis.

Philadelphia has asked a judge to hold the state in contempt of court for failing to address a crisis of overcrowding inside the city’s juvenile jail — escalating a blame game that has continued for more than a year.

No one is served by a child’s false confession: The perpetrator of the crime remains unidentified, an innocent young person is locked up, and our communities are no safer. In 2022, the Maryland General Assembly came up with a common-sense solution, enacting the Child Interrogation Protection Act. Unfortunately, it’s already under attack.