For years, Pennsylvania has been trying to create a permanent statewide Office of the Child Advocate. Creating this office is a first step toward better protecting youth in Pennsylvania.
Hillary Transue, a kids-for-cash victim who spent weeks behind bars over a minor infraction, has become a board member of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, a juvenile rights advocacy group.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Department of Human Services have agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a case brought by former students of the Glen Mills Schools, which closed in 2019 after an Inquirer investigation revealed decades of violence against boys sent to the reform school in Delaware County.
CAMDEN – The Camden County Commissioners recently adopted a resolution that bans people who intend to commit a crime or threaten another person from wearing a ski mask or a balaclava on county-owned property.
Aqilah David & Alexandria Rivera, The Philadelphia Citizen •
We are youth advocates who were incarcerated at the ages of 14 and 15 — and we don’t want the juvenile legal system to do to others what it did to us and our peers. When a person under 18 comes into the justice system, they must be treated not as an adult, but as a child, a kid.
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