Christina Sorenson, a Soros Fellow with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, has been studying instances of institutionalized child abuse in an effort to come up
These are children who entered prison before having finished high school. Does releasing them at 70 or 80 or 90 years old really give them that second chance at an actual life?
Pennsylvania has the largest number of individuals in the nation who were juveniles at the time they committed crimes that later resulted in life sentences.
Some of the last big changes Pennsylvania made to its juvenile justice system came almost a decade ago, after the “kids for cash” scandal in which judges in
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