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Steve Volk, Billy Penn: Broke in Philly •

Advocates in Pa. say there are ways to mitigate the disaster, but officials must act.

For Philly resident Lexi Andino, September has looked a lot

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Cassandra Yany, 360 Mag •

Juvenile Law Center announced Wednesday the appointment of four new members to the Board of Directors. Khaliah Ali, Daniel Okonkwo, Robert Parker and 

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Susan Vivian Mangold, Philadelphia Bar Reporter •

Juvenile Law Center and many of our partner agencies from the Delivery of Legal Services Committee have been actively involved in a variety of long-term

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Grace Toohey, Orlando Sentinel •

A Seminole County jail deputy was fired last month after his supervisors found he repeatedly did not complete mandatory checks on detained juveniles — as

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Mary Gay Scanlon, Medium •

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Vice Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, helped lead the bipartisan passage of the Justice for

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Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan •
Three Louisiana mothers explain why they’re suing the Office of Juvenile Justice and how they’re surviving in the meantime.
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Riya Saha Shah, American Bar Association •
Attorneys for children must ensure their clients are fully informed of the consequences and requirements of registering as a sex offender.
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Layne Dowdall, Jos Fox and Chloe Johnson, https://kidsimprisoned.news21.com/solitary-confinement-kids/ •

Isolation. Timeout. Lockdown. The hole.

Solitary confinement goes by many names, and it can be employed as arbitrarily as the language used to define it. 

“There

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Gabriela Szymanowska, Gretchen Lasso, Delia C. Johnson and Chloe Johnson, News21: Kids Imprisoned •

More than 1,600 incarcerated children across the country have tested positive for COVID-19 as of mid-August, leaving experts and youth advocates raising questions whether authorities