Criminal Law

The Bully Profile

Posted on February 01, 2008
This little rascal accompanies a story from MSNBC.com about a new study, published in the February issue of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, showing that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are almost four times as likely as others to be bullies...

Catching Up With the SPLC School-to-Prison Reform Project

Posted on February 01, 2008
In September, when the Southern Poverty Law Center announced a new national initiative designed to keep at-risk youth out of the “school-to-prison pipeline,” I wrote a short post expressing hope that the program would have enough money and support to get results...

First Edwards, Now This

Posted on January 31, 2008
Pour one out for Corrections Sentencing, folks. One of the best blogs on the block is folding up its tent. Thanks for everything, Michael, and best of luck on those dance steps!

Cali to Provide Lawyers for Juv Parolees

Posted on January 31, 2008
If you thought today’s top story out of California was Governor Schwarzenegger’s endorsement of John McCain… well, you’d be right. But this is important, too: On Tuesday, US District Judge Lawrence Karlton of Sacramento ruled that the state must provide lawyers to juvenile offenders facing hearings for parole violations...

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NYU to Host JJ Panel

Posted on January 30, 2008
For all you New York-area readers: Next Friday, February 8, from 8:30 to 10 in the morning (breakfast at 8:00), the Wagner School at New York University will host a panel called “Transforming Juvenile Justice in New York State.” Here’s the info: Location: Robert F...

Corrections Sentencing Re: Prison Shutdowns

Posted on January 30, 2008
Michael Connelly of the essential blog Corrections Sentencing writes in with a thoughtful comment on the economic impact of upstate New York prison shutdowns. It’s in the comments section on yesterday’s post re: Simple Justice, but I wanted to highlight it here because a) he makes an excellent point, b) it gives me [...

Charges Dismissed in Isaiah Simmons Case

Posted on January 30, 2008
Almost exactly one year ago, on January 23, 2007, Isaiah Simmons, a 17-year-old convicted of armed robbery, died at the Baltimore-area Bowling Brook Preparatory School, a privately run residential program for juvenile offenders. Following an outburst that day, Simmons was set upon by a group of counselors, who, according to the Baltimore Sun, “pinned him [...

New OJJDP Fact Sheets

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has published three new fact sheets: ? Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts, 2004 Summary: The number of delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts decreased 7 percent between 1995 and 2004. During this period, public order offense cases increased 41 percent, drug law violation cases increased 19 percent, person offenses [...

JLC Files Amicus Brief on LWOP Case

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Juvenile Law Center has filed an amicus brief in Massachusetts in support of Patrick Powell, a 16-year-old charged with murder, who is facing a mandatory, unreviewable sentence of life without parole. Powell and two other boys allegedly stabbed 21-year-old victim Daniel Columbo to death on January 6, 2006...

Simple Justice on Prison Shutdowns

Posted on January 29, 2008
Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice, responding to a post by Jamie Spencer at Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer, takes another look at the New York Times article regarding the proposed shutdown of prisons in upstate New York. (Jeez, the blogosphere gets tangled quickly, doesn’t it?) Greenfield’s take is snarkier than mine, and more charged up...

Study Links Depression and Risk Behaviors in Detained Youth

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center has released a new study, published in the January issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, which found that, according to Science Daily’s summary news report, “kids who have been arrested and are depressed are more likely to use drugs and alcohol and engage in unsafe [...

Deposing King

Posted on January 28, 2008
As some Juvienation readers may know, those in DC in particular, Washington Post columnist Colbert King has been on a bizarrely impassioned tear in recent months, attacking the DC Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services and its head, Vincent Schiraldi, a nationally renowned expert on juvenile justice reform who founded the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice [...

Northern Irish Prison Guards Threaten Strike

Posted on January 28, 2008
It’s always a good idea to track how other juvenile prison systems roughly similar to ours handle adversity; we can learn something, I think, from the similarities and differences, and the distance affords a fresh perspective on the way our own system runs...

When the Prison Bubble Bursts

Posted on January 27, 2008
How will New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s plan to shut down a good-size chunk of the state’s correctional system affect the people whose livelihoods depend on the prison industry? The Sunday Metro section of the New York Times takes a look at the community around the upstate Camp Gabriels facility, in the northern Adirondacks, to [...

Plea Deal Offered in Shaloh Joseph Case

Posted on January 26, 2008
At a hearing in Broward County yesterday prosecutors in the Shaloh Joseph case presented a plea deal that would allow the 12-year-old boy accused of killing his 17-month-old cousin to be tried as a juvenile if he agrees to plead guilty to second-degree murder...

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