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Defense lawyer Kim Gordon submitted a brief on behalf of the Juvenile Law Center advocating for individualized sentencing for people who commit their first serious

Branch, now a Zubrow Fellow in Children’s Law at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, takes pride in the fact that he is proving that

The appeal pending before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court argues that incarcerating a juvenile violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the

Philadelphia, PA (August 8, 2019): Today the National Juvenile Justice Network announced its cohort of 2019-2020 Youth Justice Leadership Institute Fellows.  Among those named was

Of the 521 people released since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that people sentenced to life without parole as children must be given

According to Jessica Feierman of the Juvenile Law Center, many state prisons call solitary confinement areas “time out” or “segregation” zones, in order to conceal

If the mark of an evolved society is how it treats its most vulnerable citizens, Pennsylvania is the equivalent of a Neanderthal. The most recent...

“Young people in institutions across the Commonwealth are not safe or supported, nor do they receive an effective education,” said Kate Burdick, senior attorney at

Representatives from the Juvenile Law Center and Education Law Center – which filed one of the class-action lawsuits against Glen Mills – also applauded the