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Juvenile Justice

By Steve Hall

Today's New York Times carries the editorial, "De-Criminalizing Children."  It addresses renewal of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act of 1974, which the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to take up today. As many as 150,000 children are sent to adult jails in this country every year ? often in connection with nonviolent offenses or arrests that do not lead to conviction. That places them at risk of being raped or battered and increases the chance they will end up as career criminals.To fix this problem, Congress needs to properly reauthorize the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act of 1974, under which states agreed to humanize juvenile justice policies in exchange for more federal aid...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).