By Post Staff The Alameda County DA Accountability Table (ACDAAT), a coalition made up of 10 community-based organizations, is praising Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s...
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Ebony Alert” bill to help locate missing Black youth and Black women in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Children are detained and subject to further abuse,” Sherri Jefferson of the African American Juvenile Justice Project (AAJJP) told NNPA Newswire this week....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While the situation is under investigation, incidents of young girls of color being singled out for disciplinary actions are unfortunately common in schools...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Despite the duration of the Memorandum of Agreement and the notable progress in many areas, the structure of the Juvenile Court of Memphis...
By Marian Wright Edelman and Melanie Hartzog NNPA Guest Columnists Under New York’s juvenile justice system a child as young as 7 can be arrested...
Juliet Linderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Teenagers awaiting trial on adult charges in Baltimore are being kept in solitary confinement for far too long —...
Robert Barnes, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether hundreds of juvenile offenders sentenced to life...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Dwindling state budgets have had an unintended positive effect – prompting states to reduce the number of...
