Check this out - The UCLA School of Law recently released a review of the literature related to the Impact of Prosecuting Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System. Perhaps no surprise, but after reviewing all the studies related to this issue, their summary includes a statement that “As the overwhelming majority of research studies...

You can now go to our web-site and check out newly posted data that completes the 2009 Detention Quarterly Report information - showing that the number of youth placed in secure detention facilities continues to decline statewide - in particular, from the first half of 2008 to the second half of 2009, the average number of youth held in...

In a 5-4 decision released today, the Supreme Court ruled that offenders who were sentenced to Life Without Parole (LWOP) must be given a chance to be considered for release – if the offense for which they were sentenced was not a homicide. The case, Graham v. Florida, resulted from a youth convicted in a series of robberies when he was...

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued proposed supplemental guidelines related to SORNA (Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act). Of particular note, the new guidelines would give jurisdictions discretion to exempt some offenses committed as a juvenile from public website posting. Comments related to this and other...

Today, Governor Doyle is signing a number of bills related to children, including:• AB296 reaffirms and strengthens the commitment to support the development of Coordinated Service Teams (CSTs), provides for the transition from the prior Integrated Services Program (ISP) model to the CST model, provides greater flexibility to local...