His story was one of many during a daylong series of testimony and affirmations and pleas to Philadelphia City Council during a hearing inside Council’s
Kate Burdick, staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center, pointed to a 2014 study of a facility where the two groups of juveniles were housed together: It found
Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, is hopeful that the high court will hear Dassey’s case. Her
The state Department of Corrections agreed to eventually ban its guards from using pepper spray and limit using solitary confinement to manage behavior of teen
“Zero-tolerance policies don’t work. They strip school administrators of discretion, and often do more harm than good,” said Kate Burdick, a staff attorney at Juvenile Law Center and
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