juvenile justice

This week, on April 24, 2019, we will discuss how to deal with lawbreakers when cultural factors have shaped the individual's path to criminal behavior,…

We resume our series, "Your Kids Have Rights at School." What about police investigation, speech, search and interrogation issues in the school-house…

What To Do When You Turn 18 -- Juveniles and the Juvenile Justice System.Guests: Judge Eugene Hyman (Ret.); Richard Halpern, Managing Attorney for the…

April 18, 2016: Nearly 50 years after In re Gault, the landmark Supreme Court case that gave youth accused of crimes the same due process rights as…

On the August 19th edition of Your Call, we’ll continue our week-long series on the prison system by talking about juvenile incarceration.While the…

For the past year, Youth Radio's Sayre Quevedo and Myles Bess have been investigating the true cost of the U.S. juvenile justice system for a series…

Standing in the hallway outside a hearing room at the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, you see benches filled with teenagers and their…

Ricky Brum stood with one of my producers in an alleyway behind a furniture store in Manteca, California, and to be honest, it was a little awkward. He…

Seventeen-year-old Elisa Morris-Jackson is sitting on the couch in sweatpants and a hoodie. It’s seven p.m. and she’s watching the TV show “Dancing With…

California has been in an ongoing struggle trying to figure out how to deal with overcrowding in prisons. The problems extend to the Division of Juvenile…