justice Archive
RALEIGH, NC — The state budget released yesterday by leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly contains policy language and funding provisions that will raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction in the state. Currently, North Carolina is the only state …
By Jeff Wallace | March 30, 2016 (Part 1 of 2) Solitary confinement is a practice that has been used in the U.S. prison system since 1829. It is based on a Quaker belief that prisoners isolated in stone cells …
(a continuation of Empathy, Inclusion, and Moral Dialog or What Gets in the Way of Negotiating Social Justice? )A person values some states of affairs over others and acts accordingly.A person will not choose less behavior potential over more.A person …
The mantra of being ‘balanced in all things’ is a well-established idea, but there is a paradox here. If we are aiming to be balanced in all things, doesn’t that mean we are being extreme (and therefore unbalanced) about being …
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is set to become the first state agency to conduct risk assessments using predictive analytics, a process that uses huge collections of data to predict outcomes and patterns. It’s the sort of news that, …
Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) have introduced a bill to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. If it eventually passes, it will be the first attempt to renew the legislation since 2002. But the bill, …
We have work to do. President Barack Obama, in what may be his most eloquent and thoughtful speech, helped us to understand the profound place in history held by those who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, March …
by Liz Ryan The United States has the obscene distinction of being number one in the world for the worst policies on the treatment of youth in the justice system, and youth of color bear the brunt of our harsh and …
Ignited by the June 2013 US Supreme Court decision invalidating Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and subsequently ratified state-based voter suppression laws, The Southern Partners Fund, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, and other organizations have formed an unprecedented, …
Should Republicans take control of the United States Senate there will be many political pundits faulting Democrats for their inability to get black voters to go the polls. Why won’t black voters go to the polls in large numbers? Well, …