Tech companies roll out digital education pilot to incarcerated youth

Sep 28, 2017 No Comments

OREGON, WASHINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, FLORIDA, AND UTAH ARE THE STATES SELECTED FOR THE PILOT PROJECT. Two tech companies are joining forces to launch a digital pilot program focusing on education, re-entry skills, and vocational programming for incarcerated youth. Endless was founded in 2012 with the mandate of making computing accessible around the globe, with or without an

Justice System Throws Poor Kids Into Debtors' Prison

Jan 5, 2017 No Comments

By Christopher Zoukis It is becoming increasingly obvious that zero-tolerance policies contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline, often unfairly punishing youth for offenses that should not be dealt with in the criminal justice system. Involvement in the criminal justice system often kicks off a domino effect toward further interaction with the criminal system. For non-violent offenses

Counseling and community service for juvenile offenders instead of incarceration

Dec 22, 2016 No Comments

Restorative justice is an alternative approach aimed at rehabilitating youth and keeping them from entering the criminal justice system. By Christopher Zoukis King County, Washington, is one of the most recent courts in the country to turn to the alternative approach of restorative justice over criminal justice when it comes to dealing with juvenile offenders

Cuomo, New York Fail to “Raise the Age” As to Juveniles Tried As Adults

Nov 15, 2016 No Comments

Sixteen and seventeen-year-olds charged with crimes in New York courts will continue to be tried as adults, as Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature ended the 2015 lawmaking session without a law to “Raise the Age” for adult prosecutions, as many justice activists had hoped. New York remains one of two states, along with North

Stop Sending Juvenile Offenders to Adult Prisons

Feb 17, 2016 No Comments

By Jean Trounstine and Christopher Zoukis A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision is a deceptively simple line that should affect, and in many cases, transform the way Americans think about juveniles who kill. At the heart of the 2012 groundbreaking case, Miller v. Alabama, said the Court, is the idea, proven by neuroscience and behavioral

Where alternative sentencing and education meet

Sep 17, 2015 No Comments

News out of Iran’s criminal justice system last week could not be more surprising. One Judge, Qasem Naqizadeh, in the city of Gonbad-e Kavus, is adopting an alternative sentencing mechanism for juveniles that the rest of the world would do well to pay attention to. Juvenile offenders with no previous records, having committed relatively minor

Opening up a world of reading opportunities for youth offenders

Jul 9, 2015 No Comments

Recently librarian and literacy advocate Amy Cheney recounted an experience of teaching young offenders in a max unit how they could read to their children and/or younger siblings. One of the most poignant moments in her account is her recollection that of the six girls in her group, just one of them had been read

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Tech companies roll out digital education pilot to incarcerated youth

Justice System Throws Poor Kids Into Debtors' Prison

Counseling and community service for juvenile offenders instead of incarceration

Cuomo, New York Fail to “Raise the Age” As to Juveniles Tried As Adults

Stop Sending Juvenile Offenders to Adult Prisons

Where alternative sentencing and education meet

Opening up a world of reading opportunities for youth offenders

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