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TwinCities.com: 1-30-2010 "Ruben Rosario: A juvenile justice alternative that works".pdf

Epoch Times : 1-27-2010 "Abuse in Juvenile Detention Rampant, Says expert".pdf

Washington Post: 1-26-2010 "Young offenders need safeguards in detention centers".pdf

Atlanta Constitution Journal: 1-26-2010 "Review juvenile detention carefully".pdf

Star-Tribune (WY): 1-25-2010 "Wyo needs to reform its juvenile justice system".pdf

Billings Gazette (WY): 1-25-2010 "Less youth detention means more savings".pdf

Chicago Tribune: 1-24-2010 "Chicago Public Schools adds to woes of youths in custody or suspended".pdf

Star-Tribune (WY): 1-24-2010 "Less youth detention means more savings, better families".pdf

Philly.com; 1-23-2010 "Editorial: Juveniles become prey".pdf

Dallas News: 1-22-2010 "Editorial: We recommend Mazur in 304th Dist. Court primary".pdf

Washington Post: 1-21-2010 "Overcrowding at D.C. youth detention center draws criticism".pdf

CNN: 1-15-2010 "States rethink 'adult time for adult crime'".pdf

Newsweek: 1-15-2010 "Children Are Not Too Old to Change".pdf

13 WTHR (IN): 1-12-2010 "Bill: Keep kids out of court for minor trouble".pdf

Delta Democrat Times: 1-10-2010 "Court uses alternative way to deal with youth".pdf

Huffington Post: 1-10-2010 "Philip N. Cohen: Juvenile Detention: When Young People Can't Say No".pdf

USA Today: 1-8-2010 "Study: Youths sexually abused in juvenile prisons".pdf

NWOTruth: 1-8-2010 "Study: Youths sexually abused in juvenile prisons".pdf

L.A. Times: 1-8-2010 "3 in 25 juveniles in detention are sexually abused, study finds".pdf

Washington Post: 1-8-2010 "Justice study tracks rape, sexual abuse of juvenile inmates".pdf

Richmond Times-Dispatch: 1-8-2010 "Va. juvenile centers cited in report on sex abuse".pdf

BJS Press Release: 1-7-2010 "Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth".pdf

Aberdeen News (SD): 1-7-2010 "Casey Foundation effort supported".pdf

New York Time: 1-6-210 "Juvenile Injustice".pdf

Star-Tribune (WY): 1-5-2010 "Bill creates more options for juvenile offenders".pdf

Chicago Public Radio: Jan 2010 "New Illinois Law Treats 17-Year-Olds as Juveniles for Misdemeanors".pdf

Florida Bar News: 1-1-2010 "Court: Unchain the children".pdf

Miami Herald: 12-28-2009 "Court made right call in limiting juvenile shackles".pdf

Law.com: 12-21-2009 "Fla. Supreme Court Bans Shackles for Juveniles in Courtroom".pdf

AP: 12-20-2009 "Loophole lets mentally ill Texas juveniles go free".pdf

Miami Herald: 12-18-2009 "Florida Supreme Court limits 'degrading' shackles for juveniles".pdf

Palm Beach Post: 12-17-2009 "Shackles barred in juvenile courts".pdf

Miami Herald: 12-17-2009 "Florida Supreme Court limits 'degrading' shackles for juveniles".pdf

Ronoake.com: 12-17-2009 "Editorial: Justice delayed".pd

Main Justice: 12-17-2009 "Senate Panel Approves Juvenile Justice Bill Renewal".pd

Post-Standard: 12-17-2009 "It is time to fix New York's awful juvenile detention system".pdf

New York Times: 12-17-2009 "De-Criminalizing Children".pdf

HamptonRoads.com: 12-16-2009 "Don't charge juveniles as adults, advocates urge".pdf

New York Times: 12-15-2009 "Judging Our Children".pdf

Philadelphia Inquirer:12-15-2009 "'Fear factor' described in kids-for-cash case".pdf

Times-Tribune (PA): 12-13-2009 "Juveniles' stories spark 'a real sense of urgency'".pdf

Rockdale News: 12-9-2009 "Evening Reporting Center for juveniles to reopen"pdf

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: 12-8-2009 "Huge jump in teens charged as adults".pdf

Washington Examiner: 12-7-2009 "Juvenile center work costs D.C. another $1.4 million".pdf

Iowa Radio: 12-7-2009 "Conference focuses on lowering youth lock up rates".pdf

Poughkeepsie Journal: 12-7-2009 "Crime Beat: New program monitors juvenile offenders".pdf

JDAI Newsletter: December 2009 "JDAI Convenes in Nation's Capital".pdf

Yahoo News: 12-4-2009 "Psychologist Wins $1 Million for Showing that Teenage Brains Really Are Different".pdf

The Michael Smerconish Morning Show/WPHT 1210AM: "Interview with Judge Teske (Reforming Zero Tolerance Policies)".mht

The Tribune-Star: 11-28-2009 "Program helping students COPE".pdf

TwinCities.com: 11-28-2009 "Ruben Rosario: Equity Project report details plight of LGBT youths in the juvenile justice system".pdf

The Daily News Tribune: 11-28-2009 "Saulnier: CHINS law is outdated".pdf

St. Petersburg Times: 11-25-2009 "Florida pays a heavy cost for locking up its children ".pdf

HuffingtonPost.com: 11-24-2009 "James Bell: One Size Does Not Fit All: A Slippery Slope to Increased Juvenile Incarcerati".pdf

The Independent (AZ): 11-24-2009 "New judge in St. Johns boy's case".pdf

HamptonRoad.com 11-22-2009 "Teen crime needs balanced reponse".pdf

Star Tribune (WY): 11-18-2009 "Juvenile justice bill stirs debate".pdf

Star Tribune (WY): 11-19-2009 "Lawmakers endorse juvenile justice bills".pdf

Wyoming Tribune Eagle: 11-19-2009 "Committee passes two juvenile detention bills".pdf

The Huffington Post: 11-18-2008 "Juvenile Justice and Race: An Uphill Climb to the Bottom".pdf

Star Tribune (WY): 11-18-2009 "Editorial: Youth risk assessment would improve system".pdf

Russiatoday.com: 11-18-2009 "Young offenders - victims of US detention system".flv (video)

Russiatoday.com: 11-18-2009 "Young offenders - victims of US detention system".pdf

The Hill: 11-17-2009 "Hidden injustice: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in juvenile courts".pdf

Des Moines Register: 11-17-2009 "Prison population jump eases, state report says".pdf

Des Moines Register: 11-16-2009 "Culver: Juvenile detention rates decline".pdf

Spanish Journal: 11-16-2009 "A Look at The Latino Population".pdf

Timberjay.com (MN): 11-14-2009 "County attorney Ford outlines juvenile justice reform".pdf

New York Times: 11-11-2009 "Editorial: The Trouble With ‘Zero Tolerance’".pdf

Virginia Juvenile Justice Association Press Release: 11-10-2009 "Career Public Servant Honored for Work in Juvenile Justice Field".pdf

Santa Cruz News: 11-10-2009 "The Aztecas of South Santa Cruz County".pdf

The Philadelphia Inquirer: 10-30-2009 "Pa. high court tosses 'tainted' juvenile cases".pdf

New York Times: 10-30-2009 "Pennsylvania Overturns Many Youths’ Convictions".pdf

ABC 24 (TN): 10-29-2009 "Keeping Kids Out Of Jail In Shelby County".pdf

News Tribune: 10-29-2009 "Judge opens adult certification hearing to public".pdf

Hartford Courant: 10-29-2009 "City Anti-Gang Program Pays Kids Who Finish $100".pdf

NPR: 10-29-2009 "Should Juveniles Be Sent To Jail For Life?".mp3

Cape May County Herald: 10-27-2009 "County Seeks Private Youth Shelter Operator, Employees Fear Pink Slips".pdf

The Virginian-Pilot: 10-25-2009 "Residents discuss juvenile justice at Norfolk forum".pdf

The Philadelphia Inquirer: 10-25-2009 "Luzerne’s youth-court scandal: How?Why?".pdf

Tampa Bay Online: 10-25-2009 "Education is last hope behind bars".pdf

Washington Post: 10-23-2009 "Former senator Alan Simpson on the Supreme Court and life sentences for youth".pdf

AP: 10-22-2009 "Placement delays 9-year-old's homicide sentencing".pdf

New York times: 10-20-2009 "San Francisco Alters When Police Must Report".pdf

Youth Today: 10-20-2009 "Placement delays 9-year-old's homicide sentencing".pdf

The Philadelphia Inquirer: 10-19-2009 "Editorial: Judging the judges".pdf

Missouri Lawyers Weekly: 10-18-2009 "Not here to judge".pdf

Birmingham News: 10-18-2009 "A new approach to juvenile crime in Alabama".pdf

Greenwood Commonwealth: 10-16-2009 "Jailing delinquents isn’t best response".pdf

DelawareOnline.com: 10-14-2009 "It's back to class for first-grader as Christina amends zero-tolerance policy".pdf

Birmingham News: 10-13-2009 "Birmingham city schools trying new policy to keep kids in class, not in court".pdf

The Jersey City Independent: 10-12-2009 "Progress Report: Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative in Hudson County".pdf

Wall Street Journal: 10-12-2009 "CA Models Prison Overhaul On Juvenile-Detention Reforms".pdf

Birmingham News: 10-10-2009 "Birmingham schools work to keep students from being arrested for minor offenses",pdf

Greenwood Commonwealth: 10-10-2009 "Adams targeting sentencing for youths".pdf

New York Times: 10-9-2009 "Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment Among Dropouts ".pdf

GazetteOnline.com (IA): 10-8-2009 "Linn County rethinks strategy for low-risk juvenile offenders".pdf

Winona Post: 10-7-2009 "County finds ways to stop repeat offenders".pdf

The Post Standard (Syracuse): 10-6-2009 "Juvenile justice expert says judge children as children".pdf

Boston Globe: 9-30-2009 "Juvenile life-without-parole sentence too harsh: report says".pdf

L.A. Times: 9-28-2009 "Supreme Court to consider juvenile 'lifers'".pdf

The Capital (MD): 9-27-2009 "Think big on drugs? Not quite".pdf

Northwest Herald: 9-27-2009 "County mirrors nationwide downward trend for incarcerating young offenders".pdf

Boston Globe: 9-26-2009 "SJC sharply limits youth curfew law".pdf

L.A. Times: 9-24-2009 "Dropouts costing California $1.1 billion annually in juvenile crime costs".pdf

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 9-10-2009 "County prosecutor, city police chief endorse education as crime antidote".pdf

Juvenile and Family Justice Today: Summer 2009 "Recognizing 17 Years of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative".pdf

Juvenile and Family Justice Today: Summer 2009 "Lens of Implicit Bias".pdf

New York Times: 8-25-2009 "4 Youth Prisons in New York Used Excessive Force".pdf

Star-Tribune: 8-20-2009 "Adviser: 'Political will' key to juvenile justice reform".pdf

New York Times: 8-14-2009 Editorial "Locking Up Fewer Children".pdf

Time: 8-7-2009 "Bad Crowd: Why Juvenile Detention Makes Teens Worse".pdf

Washington Post: 8-6-2009 "National Initiative Keeping Youths Out of Jail, Report Says".pdf

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: 8-5-2009 "Juvenile detentions down in Cook County".pdf

Salem-News.com 8-5-2009: "New Report Documents Dramatic Reductions in Youth Detention".pdf

NCCD Focus: Children Exposed to Violence (August 2009).pdf

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: 7-29-2009 "Study: Incarcerating youths in adult prisons leads to abuse, higher costs".pdf

Inside Community Justice: 7-30-2009 "Portland Police Bureau and Community Justice Partner to Help Train New Police Officers".mht

New York Times: 7-28-2009 "12 and in Prison".pdf

Mobile Press-Register: 7-26-2009 "Arrests of students in Mobile County are down, but why?".pdf

Star Tribune (MN): 7-12-2009 "Editorial: Find better ways to keep kids out of jail".pdf

Star Tribune (MN): 7-9-2009 "Experiment yields drop in juvenile detention".pdf

InsightNews.com (MN): 7-2-2009 "JDAI Achieves Goal".pdf

NorthJersey.com: 7-1-2009 "Passaic County takes steps toward juvenile justice reform".pdf

Star Tribune (MN): 6-24-2009 "Hennepin County Juvenile detainee population shows dramatic drop".pdf

Greenwich Time: 6-11-2009 "Intervention leads to drop in juvenile cases".pdf

The Hour (CT): "Report: Less juveniles entering System".pdf

Twin Cities Daily Planet: "Melvin Carter, Jr. is saving our sons in St. Paul".mht

CNN: 5-4-2009 "Lock up Teen Criminals?".pdf

Huffington post: 5-2-2009 "Pretrial Detention is Preventive Detention for Many Minority Youth".mht

News and Observer: 4-23-2009 "Fixing North Carolina's juvenile justice mistake (Op-Ed By Bart Lubow)".pdf

The New York Times: 4-5-2009 "The New Debtors’ Prisons ".pdf

The New York Times: 3-27-2009 "Missouri System Treats Juvenile Offenders With Lighter Hand".pdf

Time: 3-24-2009 "Getting the Juvenile-Justice System to Grow Up".pdf

Star-Ledger: 3-18-2009 "Report proposes N.J. spend juvenile detention center money on crime prevention".pdf

NorthJersey.com: 3-18-2009 "State advocate: Reduce number of juveniles in centers".pdf

Mobile Press-Register: 3-14-2009 "State's Juvenile Justice Act calls for alternatives to incarceration".pdf

L.A. Times: 3-13-2008 "Judge acts on juvenile hall conditions".pdf

The Boston Globe: 3-11-2009 "Contentious curfew".pdf

Juvenile Justice Matters: 3-5-2009 "Interview with JDAI's Bart Lubow".mp3

Multnomah County, OR "DCJ Juvenile and Adult Division Help Get Children Out of the Sex Trade" Press Release 2-21-2009.pdf

Star-Ledger: 2-19-2009 "New Jersey's juvenile detention centers are fewer and better".pdf

AP: 2-8-2009 "Some States Disregard Juvenile Justice Law".pdf

New York Times: 2-3-2009 "Defining ‘Cruel and Unusual’ When Offender Is 13".pdf

OregonLive.com: "Jail threat cools crime by kids".mht

The Virginian-Pilot: 1-25-2009 "Norfolk meeting explores racial gap in juvenile justice".pdf

The Virginian Pilot: 1-24-2009 "A criminal disparity between black and white youth".pdf

Indianapolis Star: 1-06-2009 "Superintendent with experience will oversee young offenders".pdf

The Oregonian: 12-18-2008 "County clarifies policies on youths in jail, homeless camping".pdf

OPB News: 12-18-2008 "County Changes Policy Of Sending Juveniles To Adult Jails".mp3 (AUDIO)

Mobile Press-Register: 12-14-2008 "Lawmakers, judge making strides in juvenile justice".pdf

OPB News: 11-18-2008 "County Recognized For Juvenile Justice Efforts".mp3 (AUDIO)

Multnomah County, OR Press Release: 11-17-2008 " Multnomah County’s Success Reducing Racial Disparities".pdf

AdvoCasey: Juvenile Justice at a Crossroads Spring 2003.pdf

AdvoCasey: Juvenile Jailhouse Rocked Fall 1999.pdf