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Significant Steps, and Gaps, in Cook County’s Drive for Mental Health Care...
Photo by Erik Unger / JJIE Cook County, Illinois, reports significant progress but continuing challenges CHICAGO -- A century after Cook County, Illinois launched the world’s very first separate court...
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After Years of Slow Progress, Illinois Finds Traction In Efforts to Meet...
Erik Unger / JJIEJohn Maki, executive director of the independent watchdog organization, the John Howard Association of Illinois. The century-old organization is devoted to juvenile and adult prison...
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Expanding Evidence-Based Treatment for Georgia’s Troubled Youth: Everyone...
Katy McCarthy / JJIE Georgia leaders are embracing reform in juvenile justice, but serious gaps and significant roadblocks still prevent many emotionally-troubled youth from receiving the best and...
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Amid Widespread Inaction on Evidence-Based Care for Troubled and Delinquent...
Youth Villages Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus is on 1,200 wooded acres in Douglasville, near Atlanta, Georgia. In a pair of feature stories published earlier, (on Georgia's reform efforts and...
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Analysis: Coming Soon… A Watershed Moment on DMC
Reading through JJIE’s extensive coverage regarding racial and ethnic disparities in juvenile justice over the past month, reviewing its excellent new DMC resource hub, and scanning the available...
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Analysis: Is Lead Exposure the Secret to the Rapid Rise and Fantastic Fall of...
For the juvenile justice field, there is no larger question. It’s the elephant in the room, the great mystery, the trend that has changed everything — and seemingly without explanation. Why have...
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Analysis: Holes in the Evidence for Evidence-Based
THE EVIDENCE BEHIND EVEN THE MOST HIGHLY-REGARDED TREATMENT MODELS FOR COURT-INVOLVED YOUTH ISN’T NEARLY AS STRONG AS ADVERTISED Fourteen years ago, I authored my first major report on juvenile...
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OP-ED: Glaring Flaws and Brazen Biases Riddle Oregon JJ Study
Earlier this month, JJIE columnist John Lash devoted a long commentary to a controversial new study that is currently making waves throughout the Oregon juvenile justice system. Written by Clackamas...
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Analysis: A Battle for the Soul of Juvenile Corrections Shapes Up in Connecticut
The Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS) At the end of a grueling three-hour hearing on Aug. 21, state Rep. Toni Walker, chair of Connecticut’s Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee,...
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Case Now Strong for Ending Probation’s Place As Default Disposition in...
Forty-plus years after sociologist Robert Martinson rocked the worlds of juvenile and criminal justice by declaring that “nothing works” in offender rehabilitation, Jens Ludwig and his colleagues at...
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Analysis: What’s the Matter With Arkansas?
A dozen years ago, former Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank wrote an unlikely best-seller, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” It examined why that state’s once moderate voters had swung hard...
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The Unlikely Reason Arkansas’ Juvenile Justice System Is Behind the Times
Over the past two years, Arkansas’ juvenile justice system has burst into the news repeatedly — and for all the wrong reasons. In August 2014, the Disability Rights Center documented alarming...
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