U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued an opinion and order allowing nearly all of the claims in the Derrick et al. v. Glen Mills Schools et al. class action to move forward.
Laura Bauer, Judy L. Thomas, Bryan Lowry, Eric Adler, The Kansas City Star •
Jenny Pokempner, a senior attorney at the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, said states need to invest more in supporting families. After reading The Star’s series, Pokempner
Since 1975, Juvenile Law Center, the nation’s oldest non-profit, public interest law firm for children, has led the way in helping substantially shape the
Reducing the number of youth placed in juvenile-justice programs has long been a goal of advocates. A recent report from Juvenile Law Center, which isÂ
Jessica Feierman, a senior managing director with the Juvenile Law Center, an advocacy organization for youth in the justice system, said that children and young
That year the Juvenile Law Center and the Defender Association of Philadelphia, in Commonwealth v. Cunningham, argued the unconstitutionality of juvenile life-without-parole sentences in Pennsylvania. They
