On this week’s episode we talk to Marsha Levick, co-founder of the Juvenile Law Center, who stepped down last year after serving for decades as the organization’s chief legal officer. We discussed the origins of the center and how it survived, how to write a good amicus brief, the Kids for Cash scandal and more.
Legislation sent to the governor allows more children to be locked up and for longer. It also requires new, previously unsuccessful treatment options to be funded.
PERRY COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — As 11-year-old Clayton Dietz remains in adult custody in Perry County on a homicide charge, his attorney is pushing to have his case moved from adult court to juvenile court.
Two Wisconsin youth detention centers, Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake, have been under federal supervision for almost a decade after numerous complaints of abuse. That supervision ended last week. An advocate, a judge and a state senator all weigh in on the decision and the state of juvenile justice.
CEO Riya Saha Shah and Jamie Silvonek were recently featured on The Pursuing Justice podcast with host Harriet Hendel (sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida). Listen in as Riya speaks about Juvenile Law Center's work, from our historic fight in the Kids for Cash scandal to the fight to bring children condemned to die in prison home. In the second part, hear directly from Jamie about her fight for freedom and redemption.
Just north of Highway 63, a row of trees separates a service road from a gray one-story building dotted with windows just wide enough to allow the width of a face.
The campus expands to reveal an arts center. An American flag waves out front.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Peterson ended mandated oversight of the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake youth prisons. A court-mandated monitoring program for the juvenile detention facilities found them to be in “substantial compliance” with reforms sought in a 2018 class action settlement, marking a new chapter in their troubled history.
After eight years, the court-mandated oversight of a Wisconsin youth prison has come to an end.
The Lincoln Hills School for boys and the nearby all-girls Cooper Lake School have been monitored by a court-appointed official since 2018. On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge James Peterson granted a request from Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections to terminate that consent decree.
Operations at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools, Wisconsin's youth prison facilities, are once again in full compliance with 50 court-ordered reforms put in place after a lawsuit stemming from child abuse allegations.
Gov. Tony Evers is asking a federal judge to lift restrictions on the state's corrections department that were put in place nearly a decade ago after inmates at the state's youth prison were subjected to excessive use of solitary confinement, pepper spray and shackles.
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