NEW YORK CITY — Ninety-nine percent. The number sent an audible gasp throughout the City Council chamber. Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea had just read off the percentage of people of color on the ...

The Obama administration Wednesday unveiled sweeping national school discipline guidelines urging schools to remove students from classrooms for disciplinary reasons only as a last resort.

The above two charts show the differential trends in offending (as measured by arrest and incarceration rates) for successive generations. Both show gradually decreasing criminal involvement for ...

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From The Chicago Bureau: For years, the sex trade was "their" problem, a heinous part of culture in poorer nations. But attention here to sex trafficking has slowly increased in recent years with the ...

The Juvenile Justice Resource Hub is a comprehensive source of information on important juvenile justice issues and reform trends. In the topics linked below, you will find: • Reliable, accurate, ...

Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders Sections Notes [1] U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform – Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division, “Incarceration of Youth Who ...

Screenshot Yusef Salaam, one of five teens falsely convicted in 1989 of raping a white investment banker jogging in Central Park, is urging New York state lawmakers to pass legislation requiring ...

The current attempt to amend the felony murder rule in California has been a multiyear effort. This work, like all our work, was borne out of our personal experiences with clients, incarcerated ...