Walter Harris, a member of the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice, is silhouetted as he listens during the Voices for Juvenile Justice...
(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,...
Muhammad Ali Nasir, also known by his emcee name MAN-E, the advocacy, policy and civic engagement coordinator for 1Hood and founder of Community Care...
Several U.S. states are eliminating criminal fines and fees for people who can’t afford them. Getty Images
– two experts on legal punishments explain why
by...
A change in policy means more Philly students are staying in school and out of the legal system.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
– researchers explain the effects...
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...
KATHI ELLIOTT, DNP
Report says Black girls 10 times
more likely than white girls to be
referred to juvenile justice
by Rob Taylor Jr.
Courier Staff Writer
In Allegheny...
