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6/30/2023
Nell Bernstein
California’s youth prisons have closed their steel doors for good, marking the end of what was once the nation’s largest youth prison system.
5/5/2023
Farrah Mina
After testimony from formerly incarcerated Black youth, UN-appointed experts today called for an end to solitary confinement for children.
4/25/2023
For years, a tireless group of parents trekked to the California state Capitol. Their goal: to shut down the California Youth Authority.
11/23/2021
Katarina Sayally
The organization Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, or CURYJ, has been transforming lives in East Oakland for over a decade.
11/10/2021
The Imprint staff reports
Legal advocates for California’s juvenile justice-involved youth have filed a lawsuit against Fresno County for not welcoming public input in developing local plans for youth justice.
8/23/2021
With just 1 in 4 of Louisiana’s incarcerated youth fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, children’s advocates say the state should do more to protect them, as the more transmissible delta variant spreads.
8/2/2021
Jeremy Loudenback
Residents in the far reaches of Los Angeles County are fighting to block dozens of youthful offenders from being sent to nearby secure detention camps — a key component of statewide reforms to shut down California’s juvenile prisons.
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7/22/2021
California’s Division of Juvenile Justice stopped admissions this month and now counties are developing plans to house and rehabilitate incarcerated youth.
6/21/2021
Opinion
As California moves to close its youth prisons, it should invest in building youth leaders, writes Katarina Sayally.
5/27/2021
Michael Fitzgerald
New York's juvenile justice system publicly reports low numbers of COVID-19 cases. Unreleased records suggest the virus spread further among youth and staff.