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Useful Links
- Juvenile Justice (PBS Frontline)In When Kids Get Life, FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (The O.J. Verdict, Innocence Lost) travels to Colorado to profile five individuals sentenced to life without parole as juveniles.
- Pendulum Foundation A Juvenile Justice Advocacy OrganizationPendulum is dedicated to educating the public about the issue of children in adult prisons, and in transforming the lives of all those youthful offenders who are currently behind bars.
- Last Chance in Texas (book, podcast)when journalist John Hubner was reporting on juvenile courts in the United States, he learned that Texas also runs one of the most aggressive and successful treatment programs for violent young criminals. Mr. Hubner gained unprecedented access to the Giddings State School, which is considered the last chance for the worst of the worst, 400 teenagers who have robbed, beaten and murdered people. His book is called "Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth."
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) by the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) Easy Access to Juvenile Populations (EZAPOP)Provides access to National, State, and County level population data detailed by age, sex, race, and ethnicity. Users can create population profiles for a single jurisdiction or create State Comparison or County Comparison tables.
- U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Juvenile LWOP for Non-Homicide Offensesfrom The Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
- National Juvenile Defender CenterNJDC is the only national organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to organizing, networking and building the capacity of the juvenile defense bar to protect children’s rights.
- Supreme Court Eliminates Mandatory Life Without Parole for Juveniles (2012)MacArthur Foundation
- Juvenile Justice InitiativeMacArthur Foundation Juvenile Justice
Through the Models for Change initiative, MacArthur supports reform in 16 states and aims to help accelerate a national juvenile justice reform movement to improve the lives of young people in trouble with the law, while enhancing public safety and holding young offenders accountable for their actions. - Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform 2009-2011Published by the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Models for Change initiative, the document includes a wide array of youth justice reforms from across the country: significant new laws, administrative rule and practice changes, positive court decisions, and promising commissions and studies.
- Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of YouthA national campaign working to end the practice of sentencing youth to die in prison.
- Yourth Courts Lesson PlansThe curriculum contains 16 lesson plans as well as introductory materials about best practices in law-related education and youth court training programs.
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