Juvenile Justice Reform
Executive Summary: A Call to Action: Advancing Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice System to Strengthen Families, Communities...
What would it look like if Tennessee’s juvenile justice system prioritized strengthening families, connecting youth...
Categories: Developmental disabilities, Equity Issues, Health, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Justice Reform, Racial Justice/DMC
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A Call to Action: Advancing Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice System to Strengthen Families, Communities, and Oversight
What would it look like if Tennessee’s juvenile justice system prioritized strengthening families, connecting youth...
Categories: Developmental disabilities, Equity Issues, Health, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Justice Reform, Racial Justice/DMC
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Families Not Facilities: Workable Solutions to Protect the Vulnerable Youth in the Department of Children’s Servicesâ€...
Categories: Child Welfare, Detention, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile justice legal issues, Juvenile Justice Reform, Placement/Confinement, Secure Juvenile Facilities
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Calling Out the Harms of Incarceration: Using Research to Fight Confinement of Youth
Categories: Detention, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Justice Reform, Placement/Confinement
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Building Community Power in Youth Justice Reform – The Brown Act and Juvenile Realignment
This resource explains how public meeting laws under the Brown Act apply to local juvenile...
Categories: Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Justice Reform
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Designed to Fail: A Report on Wilder Youth Development Center, a Department of Children’s Services Facility
Categories: Child Welfare, Crossover Youth, Detention, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile justice legal issues, Juvenile Justice Reform, Placement/Confinement, Secure Juvenile Facilities
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Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration
Report by the Justice Policy Institute outlining the costs of juvenile incarceration.
Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Collateral consequences, Detention, Disposition/placement, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources
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Juvenile Justice Can Be Less Expensive and More Effective
Op-ed by YLC Staff Attorney Sue Burrell on the cost of juvenile detention published by...
Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Collateral consequences, Detention, Disposition/placement, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources
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The Legislature’s Role in Juvenile Justice Reform: a California Example
PDF of blog by Sue Burrell written for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency's...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Realignment of resources
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The Legislature’s Role in Juvenile Justice Reform: A California Example
Blog by Sue Burrell appearing on the website of National Council of Crime & Delinquency...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Realignment of resources
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Juvenile Justice Reform: Realigning Responsibilities
Realizing the state could not afford to comply with the Farrell consent decree, in 2007,...
Categories: Realignment of resources
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Joint Informational Hearing on the California Youth Authority, May 16, 2000
In response to recent disclosures concerning the California Youth Authority, on May 16, 2000, the Senate...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues
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Violence-Prone Youth Authority Still Fails Its Children, Its Taxpayers – Daily Journal Forum Column
Article in the Daily Journal Forum Column about efforts to reform the California Youth Authority...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues
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California Juvenile Justice Reform in the 21st Century (So Far)
This 2006 presentation at the California Public Defender Association meeting in Monterey covers changes at...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues
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Youth Prison System Sued Over Health Care
LA Times article about the filing of Morris v. Harper, a lawsuit against the California...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Specific services/programs
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Improvements Ordered in State Youth Prison Clinics
LA Times article about the Youth Law Center case, Wilber v. Warner (previously Morris v....
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Specific services/programs
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SB 81 – Ten Point Tune Up
Hand out at the DJJ Realignment Symposium on SB 81.
Categories: Realignment of resources
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SB 81 Ten Point Tune up – Power point Presentation
Power point presentation at the DJJ Realignment symposium on SB 81, realignment.
Categories: Realignment of resources
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Trends and Challenges of Juvenile Justice Reform: Experiences of Three States – Power point Presentation
Panel discusses juvenile justice reform in Connecticut, California and Texas.
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Realignment of resources
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In re Sean W. Amicus
This is an amicus to a case that presents the question whether Senate Bill 459...
Categories: Disposition/placement, Division of Juvenile Facilities, Training school
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In re Greg F. Amicus
The question here is whether a juvenile court may dismiss a wardship petition in the...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Training school
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Shifting Values in Juvenile Justice – Daily Journal (December 21, 2010)
This is an op ed piece summing up juvenile justice reform in the first part...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources
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Nick O. v. Terhune Stipulation and Order
Nick O. v. Terhune was a federal class action challenging the failure of the defendants...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Special education, Training school
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Morris v. Harper (Wilber v. Cate) Peremptory Writ of Mandamus
This lawsuit was filed in May 2000, challenging the failure of the California Youth Authority...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school
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Morris v. Harper (Wilber v. Cate) Statement of Decision
This lawsuit was filed in May 2000, challenging the failure of the California Youth Authority...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school
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Morris v. Harper (Wilber v. Cate) Petition for Writ
This lawsuit was filed in May 2000, challenging the failure of the California Youth Authority...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school
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L.H. v. Brown Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunctive Relief
L.H. v. Brown is a federal class action lawsuit filed in September 2006 in the...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Parole, Training school
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L.H. v. Brown Order
L.H. v. Brown is a federal class action lawsuit filed in September 2006 in the...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Parole, Training school
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L.H. v. Brown Complaint
L.H. v. Brown is a federal class action lawsuit filed in September 2006 in the...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Parole, Training school
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Nick O. v. Terhune Complaint
Nick O. v. Terhune was a federal class action challenging the failure of the defendants...
Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Special education, Training school
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Youth Law Center Analysis of DJJ Parole Realignment to the Counties
On October 19, 2010, the Public Safety budget trailer bill, A.B. 1628, was signed into...
Categories: Parole, Realignment of resources
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