What's on our radar this week
Every Wednesday, Juvenile Law Center gathers the latest studies, reports, and headlines from around the country. Here's what we've been reading:
- In case you missed it, this New York Times article takes a hard look at solitary confinement of youth and also touches on due process, access to counsel, and youth with disabilities in the justice system. What is it like for youth held in solitary confinement for days, weeks, months or years? Traumatic, monotonous, and damaging.
- Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project is doing important work helping kids who are in the adult criminal justice system.
- Being 100% independent at age 18 is rare. Foster youth explain why extending care until age 21 is so important for stability.
- Teen girls who survive abuse and sexual assault are treated like criminals and funneled into the justice systems, but there's a way to reverse that trend.
- The Wisconsin judge announced his decision to try the teenage girls charged in the "Slender Man" case in adult court. Here's why that's a problem.
- National Council of Juvenile and Family Court (NCJFCJ) resolves to end shackling of children in juvenile courts, and we couldn't agree more.
- At what age is your brain particularly vulnerable to the effects of trauma? Hint: not just the toddler years. A clinic in Rhode Island focuses on foster youth, giving them a "medical home" and treating the long-term effects of trauma.
- A settlement was reached for the plaintiffs in the infamous "kids for cash" scandal.
Did we miss a big story? Email us at [email protected] with your headline.