As advocacy efforts to raise the age of adult court from 16 (yes 16) to 18 in New York continue, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his plan to give former youthful offenders a second chance by pardoning those who committed nonviolent crimes as youth but have since been law-abiding citizens. New York is one of just two states that...

A recently released report from the Sentencing Project, Declines in Youth Commitments and Facilities in the 21st Century, summarizes the dramatic declines in youth confinement that have occurred across the country over the last decade or so. This is not news to those who have followed the trends of dramatic declines in juvenile arrests...

A new report by the Campaign for Youth Justice, a nationwide initiative focused on removing youth from the adult criminal justice system, demonstrates failures in keeping youth housed in adult prisons safe. Specifically, the report focuses on states’ compliance to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which provides that youthful...

Juvenile Justice Geography, Police, Practice, and Statistics (JJGPS) has launched a new, state-specific profile system for exploring information on juvenile justice, providing a more comprehensive and detailed review of individual states. The profile includes information related to six key areas: jurisdictional boundaries, juvenile...

For well over a decade, trends in Wisconsin's key juvenile justice numbers have followed the national trends by continuing to decline. That trend continued through 2014 in which there were fewer juvenile arrests (only about 1/3 the number in 2002), a lower juvenile arrest rate (less than ½ of what it was in 2005), and fewer youth...