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I lost a friend to gun violence when I was in high school. Now, I counsel Chicago students facing similar pain.
When you say the names of the Chicago communities where I grew up, they may evoke negative images. Both are neighborhoods with some of the city’s highest rates of gun violence. I grew up in Nor...
Trauma-informed ‘hubs’ reduce Chicago youth incarceration
A 65% reduction in youth incarceration between 2005 and 2021 and the closing of two youth prisons during that time are among the great strides of Redeploy Illinois, an innovative Cook County pro...
Juvenile justice staffing crisis: Time to reimagine our approach
We recently conducted a survey of juvenile justice agencies on their staff hiring and retention challenges. Over 200 individual state and local juvenile corrections and probation agencies represe...
To end the age of incarceration, three communities pioneer a developmental approach
People ages 18 to 25 are over-represented at every stage of the criminal legal system and have the highest recidivism rate of any age group. It is obvious that we are responding badly to the deve...
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As Second Chance Pell Grant program grows, more incarcerate...ence between prison-run and college-run education behind bars
An expansion in access to federal financial aid through Pell Grants for those who are incarcerated will soon make higher education a bit more available to them. As of 2014, only 15% of people ear...
No place for (most) kids
Despite a large drop in youth arrests, probation caseloads and confinement of young people in detention centers and youth prisons over the past 20 years, the punitive mindset in our justice syste...
https://jjie.org/2023/03/27/1434395/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1434395
California: Is this how you want your kids to be treated?
“How would you want your kids, if they were in these facilities, to be treated?” That question was raised by formerly incarcerated youth and current juvenile justice advocate James Martin...
Opinion: Balancing incentives and sanctions to achieve youth justice progress
Recently I became aware of additional research on youth probation published by the National Partnership for Juvenile Services that provides compelling findings related to juvenile probation and j...
Opinion: Teen shooters should be judged as teens, not adults
Few among us are oblivious to the suffering that results from certain crimes committed by youthful offenders. As researchers and citizens, we agree that those who harm another person must be held...
Opinion: Education-minded prisoners thirst for more college prison programs
For a chance to earn a college degree while he’s incarcerated, Quantae has traded the matching color scheme and single-person cells of Lee’s young adult unit for concrete-gray quarters the si...