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Washington, DC –  Juvenile Law Center filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court yesterday in support of Brendan Dassey, who is seeking the high court’s review of his 2007 conviction of the  murder of Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. 

Juvenile justice advocates have filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of Brendan Dassey.

Dassey is asking for the high court

Wisconsin agreed Tuesday to pay $18.9 million to a former teen inmate who was severely brain damaged after a failed suicide attempt at the state's problem-ravaged juvenile

Francis V. Guzman has been announced as a recipient of the Juvenile Law Center’s 2018 Leadership Prize. Guzman, known for some time as somewhat a of

Among the biggest challenges in educating the 50,000 incarcerated students who live behind bars is finding and keeping good people to teach them. "Recognizing that teachers need to

"Getting a review at all, meanwhile, is “exceedingly difficult”, Marsha Levick, the deputy director and chief counsel of the Juvenile Law Center told Newsweek

"A favorable court ruling would require Philadelphia, and other districts, “to really sit down and actually address its policy in a really serious way,” said