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Publication • December 1, 2014
Filed under: Education (Juveniles)
Student Aid for Juvenile Detainees Brochure, Federal Student Aid, 2014 Federal Student Aid Eligibility for Students Confined in Adult Correctional or Juvenile Justice Facilities Below you’ll find answers to questions you may have about how being incarcerated in an adult correctional facility or committed to a juvenile justice facility affects …
Publication • October 30, 2014
HRDC Congressional comments on school to prison pipeline Dec 2012 WRITTEN STATEMENT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER FOR THE HEARING ON Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS PRESENTED ON December 12, 2012 STATEMENT …
Publication • 2014
Southern Education Foundation - Just Learning - Report on Juvenile Justice Schools, 2014 JUST LEARNING The Imperative to Transform Juvenile Justice Systems Into Effective Educational Systems A Study of Juvenile Justice Schools in the South and the Nation WWW.SOUTHERNEDUCATION.ORG The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Founded in 1867 as the George …
Publication • January 1, 2014
Rethinking Rikers Juvenile Program Rule-Making Proposal to NYC BoC 2014 RETHINKING RIKERS: MOVING FROM A CORRECTIONAL TO A THERAPEUTIC MODEL FOR YOUTH Proposal for Rule‐Making Report for the NYC Board of Correction Professor Ellen Yaroshefsky Prepared by: Melody Berkovits Dinisha Fernando Nadia Jean‐Francois Michelle Kornblit Lindsay Melworm Casandra Tolentino Karina …
Brief • December 5, 2013
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Publication • October 1, 2013
Black, Brown, and Over-Policed in L.A. Schools Labor/Community Strategy Center 2013 Black, Brown, and Over-Policed in L.A. Schools: Structural Proposals to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline in the Los Angeles Unified School District and to Build a National Movement to Stop the Mass Incarceration of Black and Latino Communities A report …
America Eats its Young: Arizona Communities Embrace Use of Private Prison Employees in Drug Raids at Public Schools by Beau Hodai In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations. The state has graced headlines in recent years as the …
Article • May 15, 2012
DOJ Investigation Forces Indiana Juvenile Teacher License Upgrade by The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's conclusion that prison officials had the authority to require prison teachers to obtain a special education license. The court reversed the lower court's holding, however, that prison officials were required to comply …
Article • November 15, 2011
Second Circuit Denies Connecticut Student's &#167;1983 Claim against School Officials by Derek Gilna Second Circuit Denies Connecticut Student's §1983 Claim against School Officials by Derek Gilna The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld a district court order granting summary judgment to public school officials in …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Economy Forces States to Rethink Juvenile Justice Policies, Priorities by The “tough on crime” movement of the 1990s ushered in a wave of harsh juvenile justice practices across the U.S., and the philosophy for dealing with juvenile offenders shifted from rehabilitative to punitive. Children were tagged with dehumanizing labels like …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Juvenile Offenders by Even in the face of a $3.5 billion shortfall in the 2011-2013 biennial budget cycle which began on July 1, 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber refused to touch the $1.5 billion budget of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Instead he turned his …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Washington State: Settlement Requires Pierce County to Provide Educational Opportunities to Jailed Youths by The parties in a class-action lawsuit regarding the lack of educational services for juvenile offenders at Washington state’s Pierce County Jail (PCJ) reached a settlement that requires the Tacoma School District (District) to provide incarcerated youths …
Publication • November 1, 2010
The Use of Crim. Records in College Admissions Ctr. for Community Alternatives 2010 THE USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS RECONSIDERED THE USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS RECONSIDERED Acknowledgements This report was written by staff of the Center for Community Alternatives (CCA), Marsha Weissman, Ph.D., …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Report Details Societal Effects of High School Dropout Rates – Including Incarceration by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Dropping out of high school [is] an apprenticeship for prison,” said Illinois State Senator Emil Jones at a 2006 Chicago conference on high school dropouts. An October 2009 report issued by …
Article • July 15, 2009
Texas Teen Settles for $65,000 in Excessive Force Case by On May 20, 2008, 17-year-old Khandiese Cooper accepted a settlement of $65,000 in a Section 1983 claim involving excessive force and false arrest. Ms. Cooper, represented by attorneys Vic Feazell and Austin Tighe of Austin, Texas, filed suit against the …
Arkansas Juvenile Center Continues Violating Rights Despite 2003 Court Enforceable Agreement by Bob Williams By Bob Williams Arkansas protection and advocacy group Disability Rights Center (DRC) reported on conditions at the Alexander Youth Services Center (Center) in 2006. The programs at the Center were determined inadequate and discriminatory in some …
Article • August 15, 2008
Unlawful Maryland Strip Search Suit Settles for $285,000 by Kent County, Maryland high school students Heather Gore and Jessica Bedell received a total of $285,000 and apologies in a settlement for nefarious strip searches conducted in 2004. The Kent County Sheriff’s Dept. brought drug sniffing canines into the school in …
Child Abuse Abounds in Wilderness and Boot Camp Programs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 10, 2007, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)--a federal governmental entity that audits, evaluates and investigates for Congress--released a report on residential treatment programs (RTPs) entitled Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Supreme Court Discusses § 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status by The United States Supreme Court held that a South Carolina nonprofit private school, which prescribed and enforced racially discriminatory admission standards on the basis of religious doctrine, did not qualify as a tax-exempt organization under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. …
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