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Protect and Redirect: America’s Growing Movement to Divert Youth Out of the Justice System – The Sentencing Project

Jurisdictions around the country have taken steps to expand diversion as an alternative to arrest or prosecution in juvenile court.

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Spending on CASA for Foster Kids Surges; Evaluation Lags

A review of CASA research finds that rigorous evaluation of the volunteer court advocates is limited, despite heavy taxpayer support.

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Civic engagement is a ThinkTennessee priority. Our research explores aspects of elections and civic life, including election security, civic

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Opinion | My Sister Was Murdered 30 Years Ago. True Crime Repackages Our Pain as Entertainment.

I grew up watching the brief beauty of my sister’s life weaponized to usher in an era of mass incarceration and true crime obsession.

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Although her killer was caught and convicted, I grew up watching the brief beauty of my sister’s life eclipsed by a political narrative that weaponized her innocence to propel an era of mass incarceration and true crime obsession.

Those early experiences showed me how sensationalist stories in the media about high-profile crimes not only erode the dignity of victims but also can inflate public perception of national crime rates, which have been in decline for decades. Misguided policies like three-strikes laws aren’t merely unfortunate side effects of inflammatory discourse; they are the direct result of moral outrage curated by hyperbolic headlines and the pervasiveness of true crime’s grisly method of storytelling."

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Gun violence among juveniles is rising. How do you keep them out of the system?

We heard from young men who are locked up in Maryland for serious crimes like robbery and assault. Now we hear from a key official with a lo

Vincent Schiraldi

SCHIRALDI: We had a simultaneous, very substantial reduction in the number of kids who are locked up, 70% from 2000 to 2020. And we had about an 80-plus percent decline in arrests of juveniles during that period of time. So it was kind of a virtuous cycle - fewer kids getting arrested, fewer kids getting locked up and learning. Then we had this pandemic. Kids were disrupted from schools. Parents were losing their jobs. Mental health issues were sort of increasing for both the young people and their families and their neighborhoods. People started to arm themselves in those neighborhoods, mostly adults but sometimes kids. And when you have a lot of people with a lot of frustration, with a lot of guns in their pockets, you stop having fistfights, and you start having shootouts.

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‘Torn Apart’: Ms. Magazine’s New Podcast Shows How the U.S. Welfare System Destroys Black Families - Ms. Magazine

Ms. Studios' new podcast "Torn Apart: Abolishing Family Policing and Reimagining Child Welfare" with Dorothy Roberts lifts up Black families

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DCS whistleblowers claim ‘cover-up’ of ‘dangerous’ conditions in state-run homes

DCS employees say they were told to cover-up dangerous conditions inside a state-run home where abused and neglected children stayed.

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What resources are available to support trauma-informed, healing-centered approaches in child welfare?

Casey Family Programs has compiled a list of resources on the topic of trauma-informed, healing centered approaches in child welfare.

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How can child welfare systems apply the principles of the Indian Child Welfare Act as the “gold standard” for all children?

The Indian Child Welfare Act is a basis for best practice in how child welfare agencies should treat all children, families, and communities

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The Jed Foundation

The Jed Foundation is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults, giving them t

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Parents say they're struggling with their own mental health amid a growing youth mental health crisis

Data shows parents are struggling with mental health at nearly the same rate as teens.

"Parents often have a lot of wisdom, as they know a lot about anxiety and depression and they know a lot about how to cope with anxiety and depression," he said. "And this may be the most psychologically aware and articulate group of teenagers in our history who have a very wide vocabulary for talking about mental health challenges. And in general, teens don't feel the same stigma that their parents do, so there are many cases where teens can also be helpful to their parents."

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Rethinking Prison Tourism

Many former prison sites draw on the spooky and salacious to entertain visitors. But some are having second thoughts.

“The way the United States approaches prison tourism re-inscribes the kind of politics that support mass incarceration,” said Jill McCorkel, a professor of criminology at Villanova University. “It turns human suffering into a spectacle.” 

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Robert S., an incarcerated man at SCI Chester, said he doesn’t have a problem with prison museums, but organizers should make sure that people have an understanding of the effect on the people who were housed there. “The museum is for amusement, but this was someone's pain,” he said. “This was someone's struggle. This was someone's life. It wasn't amusement to them.”

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Why America Has a Youth Mental Health Crisis, and How Schools Can Help

Schools are on the front lines of what the U.S. Surgeon General has called “the defining public health crisis of our time.”

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Being in juvenile court can cost thousands. A new Indiana law will change that.

A new law that will go into effect this summer will eliminate some costs and fees in juvenile court for those who cant afford to pay them.

the bill will "place the burden on the courts to prove that families are able to pay the fees. It also removes the obligation to pay for a public defender. The new law additionally applies to some services for youth in the custody of the state’s Department of Child Services."