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With youth arrests down, it’s a great time to reform juvenile justice, advocates say

Walter Harris, a member of the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice, is silhouetted as he listens during the Voices for Juvenile Justice...

Shuman reopening continues two-century child incarceration debate in Allegheny County

(Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Photo illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource) Since Dorothea Dix declared the county’s approach to detaining kids to be perfectly flawed in 1845,...

Congressional leaders advocate for Rosa Parks Day Federal Holiday

The proposed legislation aims to designate December 1 as a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks, recognizing her pivotal role in the Civil...

Inside Allegheny County’s $73 million contract for a private juvenile detention operator

Allegheny County’s Shuman Juvenile Detention Center sits shuttered on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar. The county announced mid-September that it would hire private...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett slams GOP for ignoring Trump’s charges in viral video

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) called out Republicans for ignoring former President Donald Trump's criminal charges in a video that's gone viral. Crockett's comments came on...

Shuman Center will reopen: Some welcome the news; others, not so

PITTSBURGH MAYOR ED GAINEY IS IN FAVOR OF THE REOPENING OF SHUMAN JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER, BUT HE DOES NOT WANT OFFENDERS TO END UP...

First grader who shot teacher in Virginia is among the youngest school shooters in US history

by David Riedman, University of Central Florida Barely a week into the new year, a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School in...

What the Jan. 6 committee could learn from the failures of truth commissions to bring justice and accountability

The U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol resumes on Sept. 28, 2022. Win McNamee/Getty Images by Rachel E....

A Pennsylvania prison gets a Scandinavian-style makeover – and shows how the US penal system could become more humane

by Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University and Synøve Nygaard Andersen, University of Oslo The United States has the largest number of people incarcerated in the...

Guest Editorial: Black women leaders make their presence felt

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures (Psalms 117:22), the stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”   Remarkable Black...

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