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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

Defense lawyer Kim Gordon submitted a brief on behalf of the Juvenile Law Center advocating for individualized sentencing for people who commit their first serious

The appeal pending before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court argues that incarcerating a juvenile violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the

Branch, now a Zubrow Fellow in Children’s Law at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, takes pride in the fact that he is proving that

Of the 521 people released since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that people sentenced to life without parole as children must be given

According to Jessica Feierman of the Juvenile Law Center, many state prisons call solitary confinement areas “time out” or “segregation” zones, in order to conceal

Representatives from the Juvenile Law Center and Education Law Center – which filed one of the class-action lawsuits against Glen Mills – also applauded the

“Young people in institutions across the Commonwealth are not safe or supported, nor do they receive an effective education,” said Kate Burdick, senior attorney at