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Setting the Stage for Success in 2017: 2016 Year-End Highlights

Executive Director, Susan V. Mangold; Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Marsha Levick, January 12, 2017

Happy New Year! While we are preparing to confront new challenges in 2017, we ended 2016 with some important wins in some of our key issue areas: reducing transfer to adult court, ending juvenile life-without-parole and other extreme sentencing, and improving educational access and success for foster youth and justice system-involved youth.

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Department of Justice Takes Action on Costs, Fines and Fees for Juvenile Offenders

Juvenile Law Center, January 12, 2017

Today the Department of Justice issued critical guidance on the use of costs, fines and fees for youth in the juvenile justice system. This development follows a campaign of advocacy and research on the widespread abuse of costs, fines and fees in the juvenile justice system, and Juvenile Law Center’s publication of a groundbreaking national report on the issue.

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Setting the Stage for Success in 2017: 2016 Year-End Highlights

Department of Justice Takes Action on Costs, Fines and Fees for Juvenile Offenders

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