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Juvenile Justice Information Exchange - Juvenile Justice News for People Who Care About Children and the Law Skip to content About Us Staff Our Supporters Intern Testimonials Write an Opinion Post Advertise Subscribe Donate Today GO Donate Today Go News Ideas and Opinions The Beat Within Topics Community-based Alternatives Florida Criminal Justice Project Homelessness and Justice Project Mental Health Racial Disparities Substance Use Targeting Gun Violence Project Photoblog Resource Hub Youth Gun Violence Prevention Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Community-Based Alternatives Juvenile Indigent Defense Evidence-Based Practices Racial-Ethnic Fairness Re-entry Dual Status Youth JJIE Hub: Newly Added Resources Snapshots Sign Up for Updates From the Bureaus New York Bureau Los Angeles Bureau Video Magazines Bokeh Focus Instagram Bokeh Focus Website Foster Care Substance Use Jobs Job Listings Post a Job Donate Today Global Navigation About Us Staff Our Supporters Intern Testimonials Write an Opinion Post Advertise Subscribe Juvenile Justice Information Exchange - Juvenile Justice News for People Who Care About Children and the Law Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (https://jjie.org/) News Ideas and Opinions The Beat Within Topics Community-based Alternatives Florida Criminal Justice Project Homelessness and Justice Project Mental Health Racial Disparities Substance Use Targeting Gun Violence Project Photoblog Resource Hub Youth Gun Violence Prevention Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Community-Based Alternatives Juvenile Indigent Defense Evidence-Based Practices Racial-Ethnic Fairness Re-entry Dual Status Youth JJIE Hub: Newly Added Resources Snapshots Sign Up for Updates From the Bureaus New York Bureau Los Angeles Bureau Video Magazines Bokeh Focus Instagram Bokeh Focus Website Foster Care Substance Use Jobs Job Listings Post a Job Juvenile Detention Is Asinine Exception to Social Distancing By Paul Pearson | March 30, 2020 Right now I’m almost sure that there is a 14- or 15-year-old crying from inside a jail cell at the Cook County [Ill.] Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (CCJTDC) — home of the world’s first juvenile court house established in 1899. The Risks of Threat Assessment to Students Are Dire In the wake of highly publicized and tragic mass shootings at schools, jurisdictions across the country have responded with a flood of expanded school security policies. While much of this policymaking has echoed previous measures, like school hardening, surveillance and policing, some policymakers have focused on preventing targeted violence (where an attacker selects a particular target in advance) by identifying potentially violent actors and intervening to stop them before a violent act occurs. They label this threat assessment. Recidivism Is Not Enough to Track How Juveniles Are Doing, Multistate Project Shows In December, President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Juvenile Justice Reform Act (JJRA) of 2018, which reauthorized the landmark Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act for the first time since 2002. Passage of the JJRA, which followed more than a decade of debate, will strengthen protections for youth in the justice system. Youth Homeless Providers Call on New York City Officials For Plan As a global pandemic looms over New York City, one group in particular might be getting left behind, homeless youth — a vulnerable subset of the general homeless population made up of runaway youth, LGBTQ teens and other young people experiencing homelessness. More Headlines Nothing Will Stop Us From Reporting on the Issues Youth Justice Advocates Urge COVID-19 Fixes for Facilities Effects of Gun Violence Can Be Reduced in Youth, Chicago Program Shows New Breed of Cop in New Jersey Keeps Kids on Straight and Narrow By Michael Tashji | March 16, 2020 On a Friday night in Bloomfield, N.J., middle school children hang out at Foley Field to watch the high school football team play. Officer Marvid Camacho provides security at the game. As the resource officer at Bloomfield Middle School, he knows all the kids in town. Camacho is a new breed of cop. His role, as he sees it, is to prevent crimes, not just respond to them afterward. He tries to build a connection with kids and give them life lessons that will keep them out of the criminal justice system. My Brother’s Love Made Me Feel Blessed, No Matter What By Osbun Walton | March 12, 2020 It was an early morning, uncommonly quiet, and with no movement because of a fog alert, yet people were going to different places, to work, to the yard or day room to play cards and chess. My cellie went on a visit. Gun Violence Work Could Use Billions of Dollars in Victim Assistance Funds By Jordan Costa | March 11, 2020 Gun violence in the United States has rapidly become a problem that has touched the lives of millions of people. Whether directly or indirectly, research shows that over 1.2 million people have been shot in the past decade, millions have witnessed gun violence firsthand and hundreds of millions of people will know at least one victim of gun violence in their lifetime. Effort to Raise the Age in North Carolina Was Long, Exhausting March By Eric Ferkenhoff | March 10, 2020 With one worried phone call from the mother of a 16-year-old boy, the modern movement that brought raise the age to North Carolina began, drawing legislators, activists, lawyers, parents and kids into a battle that lasted more than 13 years before the state passed its RTA bill in summer 2017. Early Data Shows Raise the Age Slowly Taking Effect For North Carolina’s Juveniles By Molly Weisner | March 5, 2020 Just three months after raise the age took effect on Dec. 1 in North Carolina, early numbers seem to reflect a gentle transition from prosecuting 16- and 17-year-olds in the adult system to prosecuting them in the juvenile system. Doctors Banding Together to Fight Gun Violence By Ashely Alker | March 5, 2020 The lights are somehow brighter at 2 a.m., fluorescent and imposing, shining directly onto the hard white table in the center of the room. The paramedics wheel in a gurney with a lifeless body, blood-stained clothes and the face of a boy. The words that follow are too familiar, ”16-year-old male, no known past medical, GSW to the abdomen and right lower extremity …” The boy is transferred to the trauma table and the battle for another life begins. Legal Financial Obligations From Juvenile Court Strain Families’ Budgets, Emotions By Chiara Packard and Leslie Paik | March 4, 2020 Sarah is a mother living in Madison, Wis., whose son was involved in juvenile court for breaking a window at his school. Now, she’s struggling to pay bills for court fines and fees (which we refer to as legal financial obligations, or LFOs) that just keep on coming in the mail. My Father Went Off the Deep End and I Ended Up in Jail By Danny Knight | March 2, 2020 I am an inmate at Liberty Correctional in Bristol, Fla. I am going on my 12th year of a 40-year-sentence for a nonviolent, first-time offense I committed 60 days into my 17th birthday. Jacksonville Organization Attacks Violence, Blight With Holistic Approach By Claire Goforth | February 27, 2020 On Nov. 14, Gary Ervin attended a vigil for a young life cut tragically short by gun violence. Days earlier, a 15-year-old was killed in a shooting near a Burger King on the northwest side of Jacksonville. Paul Tutwiler’s Mission of Revitalizing Communities Takes Him Back to His Roots By Claire Goforth | February 27, 2020 A black and white picture of schoolchildren hangs on the wall of Paul Tutwiler’s office. He’s not related to any of the children who attended a segregated school for black people in the early 20th century, nor does he know their descendants. Yet those young faces strike a chord in him. Load more posts Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter Richard Ross on Juvenile Lifers The New York Bureau Youth Homeless Providers Call on New York City Officials For Plan By Ra...