As other states around the country in which the age of adult court jurisdiction is lower than 18 are changing, it is time for Wisconsin to use what we have learned over the past seventeen years about adolescent brain development, what works with youthful offenders, and what the research confirms - that we can keep the community safer...
Journal Sentinel Column Examines Black Male Incarceration and Ways to Tackle the Problem A column in Sunday’s Journal Sentinel provides a compelling description of the “mass incarceration” of African American males in Milwaukee County. If that term strikes you as hyperbole, I suspect you missed the alarming report issued a few weeks ago...
As the recent failure of the Senate to pass even the most basic gun regulations on background checks shows, the rhetoric and responses to the tragedy at Sandy Hook and other incidents remains polarized. Concerned that the "easy way out" is to put more armed security in schools, many advocacy groups have begun to speak out with notes of...
If you did not see it last night, PBS aired a documentary by Ken Burns and others, titled Central Park Five. This documentary tells the story of five youth (Black and Latino) who were arrested in New York City in 1989. Watching the documentary takes you back to a time when crime in New York was high, and racism cast a shadow over the...
Thirty-six states, including Wisconsin, still allow the process of indiscriminate shackling of juveniles during their interaction with law enforcement and the court. In almost all cases children are not assessed for what danger he or she poses to the court or a police officer, rather it is just part of a “preventive” routine – but a...
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