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Juvenile Law Center, which advocates for rights, dignity, equity and opportunity for youth in the foster care and justice systems, has hired three new

“The [U.S. Supreme Court] has given a definition to what meaningful means. It doesn’t mean that they come out when they’re on a gurney. It

The provision was removed to make the bill more palatable, Nadia Mozaffar, a staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia who helped draft

In fact, all sides in the case seem to agree that 50 years is indistinguishable from life without parole. But Felder’s advocates, from the Defender

According to Juvenile Law Center, a non-profit, public interest law firm, children prosecuted as adults face a higher risk of sexual abuse, physical assault, and suicide

In the juvenile justice world, scrutiny of fee collection has been mounting, said Jessica Feierman of the national Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, where the court

Each year, nearly half of Pennsylvania’s teenagers in foster care age out of the system. Many have nowhere to go. According to Juvenile Law Center, nearly