What's on our radar this week
Every Sunday, Juvenile Law Center gathers the latest studies, reports, and headlines from around the country. Here's what we've been reading:
- On Tuesday, October 13, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the oral arguments in Montgomery v. Louisiana. Their decision will decide if Miller v. Alabama (2012) should apply retroactively to all offenders sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for crimes committed as juveniles. Marsha Levick is co-counsel for Montgomery.
- Children in foster care are given psychiatric medication at double the rates of children not in care. California passed a new law, which will work to protect children in care from being inappropriately medicated.
- In this week's POTUS address, President Obama talks about criminal justice reform. Watch the video here.
- The Juvenile Justice Garden Program at the San Francisco juvenile detention center is using poetry and gardening to deter juveniles from returning to detention after their release.
- California passed a new law, which will give transgender youth in foster care the right to placements consistent with their gender identity regardless of the biological sex listed on their welfare records.
- The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded Virginia a grant which will be used to improve re-entry services for juvenile offenders.
- YouthToday asked: What do young people think about the JJDPA?
- Wisconsin legislators are trying (again) to move nonviolent 17 year-old offenders to the juvenile justice system.
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