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Kids sleeping on the floor due to overcrowding at Philly juvenile center

Brian Sheehan, NBC 10 News •

The city is calling on the court to intervene after overcrowding has become a problem at the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Service Center in West Philadelphia

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At New Mexico’s biggest jail for children, toilets and staff are lacking — but strip searches are common.

Joshua Bowling, SearchLight New Mexico •

The décor inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center (YSC) is more in line with the children’s wing of your local library than a jail

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What to know about the crisis in Philly’s juvenile jail, and a judge’s latest order

Ellie Rushing, The Philadelphia Inquirer •

Philadelphia’s juvenile jail has been in crisis for months, and now for the second time, a Commonwealth Court judge has ordered the state to take

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Time lost in Philadelphia juvenile detention 'a whole other level of travesty,' says advocate

Pat Loeb, KYW NewsRadio •

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Commonwealth Court judge’s order for the state to take custody of some of the young offenders who have been sentenced

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Judge orders state to take custody of 26 Philly teens held in the city’s dangerously overcrowded juvenile jail

Ellie Rushing & Ximena Conde, The Philadelphia Inquirer •

What you should know:

  • A Commonwealth Court judge has given Pennsylvania officials 30 days to take custody of 26 young people living at Philadelphia’s juvenile

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Philadelphia officials describe dire conditions at Juvenile Justice Services Center as judge hears request for state relief

Pat Loeb, KYW NewsRadio •

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Commonwealth Court judge on Wednesday heard arguments in Philadelphia’s request that the state take juvenile offenders who’ve been sentenced to

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Editorial: Keep more juveniles out of adult court

The Editorial Board, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette •
Pennsylvania is one of only 13 states with no limit on how young a juvenile can be tried in adult court and exposed to adult jails and prisons. In Lawrence County in 2009, for example, 11-year-old Jordan Brown was charged in adult court for the fatal shooting of his father’s fiancee. He was too young to shave but faced a mandatory life sentence.