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Article • December 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2025
Maryland Supreme Court Announces New Constitutional Rule Requiring Voir Dire Questions Related to Child-Witness Credibility and Abrogates Prior Inconsistent Case Law by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The Supreme Court of Maryland announced a new rule of constitutional law permitting defendants to ask potential jurors during jury selection whether they …
Publication • September 10, 2024
Letter to Governor Inslee about Green Hill September 10, 2024 Dear Governor Inslee, As formerly incarcerated persons who have professional, as well as deep personal knowledge of the process of rehabilitation, we ask that you respect our lived expertise and release youth in our state’s Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) facilities who …
Article • May 15, 2024 • from CLN May, 2024
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces Defendants Under Age 21 Ineligible for LWOP Sentences by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts extended the holding of Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk Dist., 1 N.E.3d 270 (Mass. 2013) (sentence of life without parole for first-degree murder …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from CLN July, 2023
Minnesota Abolishes Life Without Parole for Juveniles by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On May 19, 2023, Minnesota Governor Walz (D) signed omnibus public safety bill – SF 209, which abolishes life imprisonment without parole for minors. Under the bill, juvenile life-without-parole sentences will be retroactively eliminated. In addition, all …
Article • May 17, 2023
Indiana Passes Law Prohibiting Police From Lying to Juveniles During Interrogation to Help Prevent False Confessions by Miles Dyson by Miles Dyson Indiana lawmakers have passed a new law that prohibits law enforcement from lying to juveniles during interrogations. The law, which was signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb on May …
Article • March 15, 2023 • from CLN April, 2023
$100 Million Awarded in Federal Grant Money for Recidivism Reduction by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The Bureau of Justice Assistance (“BJA”), created by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), announced on October 5, 2022, that it was awarding over $100 million in grant money to programs geared toward recidivism …
Article • February 19, 2023
Illinois Town Will Pay $12 Million to Family After SWAT Officer Shot 12-Year-Old in Kneecap While Sitting on Bed With Hands Up by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In early February of 2023, Al Holfeld, Jr., lawyer for Crystal Worship and her son Amir, announced that their federal …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ends Practice of Juvenile Courts Granting Continuances for Sole Purpose of Extending Delinquent’s Period of Detention by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ended the practice of judges presiding over juvenile delinquency proceedings and granting continuances for the sole purpose of …
Article • December 18, 2022
Veteran Kansas Homicide Detective Charged in Sex-Trafficking Investigation Involving Girls as Young as 13 by Kaden Gicker by Kaden Gicker On Nov. 14, 2022, an indictment against former Kansas City, Kansas, homicide detective, Roger Golubski, was unsealed. CNN reported that the former officer, long suspected of numerous heinous crimes, was …
Article • November 17, 2022
Three Former Pennsylvania Cops Plead Guilty in Tragic Shooting Death of 8-Year-old Girl by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 11, 2022, three former Sharon Park police officers pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the death of an eight-year-old girl killed in the crossfire between them and …
Article • October 27, 2022
Texas Teen Who Was Shot Repeatedly by Cop While Eating Hamburger Clings to Life by Kaden Gicker On the night of Oct. 2, 2022, a San Antonio, Texas, police officer approached a car in a McDonald’s parking lot. The New York Times and KENS in San Antonio reported that the …
ICE Used Fake University to Entrap Foreign Students to the Tune of $6 Million, Ruining Their Lives by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 9, 2022, 40 groups representing immigration advocates and civil rights activists sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, calling foul and …
Article • August 13, 2022
Juvenile Justice Reform on the Agenda in Michigan after Teen Sent to Prison for Not Doing Online Homework by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On July 29, 2022 a Michigan task force presented its findings and made 32 recommendations to keep young people out of detention facilities, provide them …
Texas Police Refuse to Release Bodycam Footage From the Uvalde School Shooting, Claiming It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’ by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman According to reporting from VICE News, the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”) is trying to prevent the public from seeing police body cam footage …
Publication • 2022
Dreams-Deferred-Florida-Juvenile-Fees-Report-2022 FFJC Table of Contents I. Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…… 3 II. Key Findings …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….. 4 III. How Juvenile Fees and Court Costs Pile Up……………………………………………………….…… 6 IV. Fees Harm Youth, Families, and the Community……………………………………………….……. 7 V. Juvenile Fee Revenue is Not Worth the Cost…………………………………………………….…….. 10 VI. Organizations that Oppose Fees on Youth……………………………………………………….………. …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Colorado Supreme Court Announces Mandatory Lifetime Sex Offender Registration Unconstitutional for Juveniles With Multiple Adjudications by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of Colorado held that mandatory lifetime sex offender registration for multiple sex offenses committed as a juvenile constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the …
Article • October 26, 2021
New Study Shows School Cops Don’t Decrease Shootings, Just Increase Expulsions and Arrests by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman An academic working paper released in mid-October 2021 found that police officers employed in public schools—typically known as School Resource Officers (“SROs”)—have zero success in reducing the number of school shootings. …
Article • November 15, 2020 • from CLN December, 2020
Would the Real Officer Friendly Please Stand Up? by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In 1966, the official Officer Friendly program was first instituted by the Chicago Police Department. Shortly after inception, the program became sponsored by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. This educational program was designed for elementary schools, focusing …
Human Rights Protections for Children - State Ratings Report 2020 2020 State Ratings Report Human Rights Protections for Children in the U.S. Justice System Acknowledgments We would like to thank the Coalition for Public Safety, Represent Justice, and the Weissberg Foundation for their support and partnership in the creation of …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
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Repeat Offenders May Be the Result of Different Brain Composition by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. With consideration for the age-old adage, “nurture versus nature,” a recent study suggests that the single common characteristic shared by repeat offenders may be isolated to the structure and composition of the …
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