Attorney Lashandra Peoples-Johnson provided an overview of how the justice system addresses crimes committed by minors in Oklahoma, outlining classifications, court processes, and potential outcomes.

The Impact of Adolescent Developmental & Brain Research on Juvenile Justice Reform. Major findings in developmental neuroscience over the past couple of decades have shed new light on our ...

Advocates have pushed for the detention center to reopen since it was closed in 2022. Despite broad agreement that a local facility would be beneficial, staffing challenges are the main barrier.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE)—Proponents of juvenile justice reform met with youth and their families to discuss recent changes to state law regarding juvenile offenders and decry what they view as the rolling ...

Teenagers in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system are routinely being locked alone in their rooms for as much as 23 to 24 hours a day, according to an ongoing federal lawsuit and advocates for ...

While our great state of Texas has made some remarkable reforms to the juvenile justice system, that progress has stalled over the last decade. The closure of nine youth prisons − the last of which ...

In town halls and in conversations with community associations across Maryland over the past two years, citizens have expressed concern with the state of our juvenile justice system. Maryland ...

But the court also advocated for non-budgetary changes, including a cultural shift in how the county approaches youth justice – emphasizing prevention over punishment and rejecting harmful stereotypes ...