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Inmate NAACP chapter in Delaware

July 24, 2018 by John Lam

Inmates at a Delaware state prison have created an NAACP chapter to litigate for rehabilitation, compassionate release, improved health care, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Legal Redress Committee, NAACP, NAACP Prison Chapter 2032

USSC Children's right to counsel

July 19, 2018 by John Lam

Fifty years ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that children have a right to counsel, but many kids in the juvenile system are still left unrepresented, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: National Juvenile Defender Center, qualified juvenile defender, right to counsel, Youth Offender

Keep kids out of the system

July 19, 2018 by John Lam

Several counties in the U.S. have implemented a new program that has helped to keep kids out of the juvenile justice system, according to The Crime … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Carey Group, juvenile arrests, juvenile justice system, Systems of Care, Youth Offender

Youth offender who realizes opportunity a little too late

June 11, 2018 by John Lam

Andrew Joseph Biovin with NFL player Brendon Ayanbadejo

Many youth offenders who find themselves incarcerated at San Quentin fail to recognize the opportunities available to them and end up transferred to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: “BE-IT”, AB1276, Benefiting Each Individual Together, Biovin, California’s Men’s Colony, kid cat, Level 4 prison, Miguel Sifuentes, Receive and Release, YOP, Youth Offender

CA senators bill baring juveniles from adult courts

June 11, 2018 by John Lam

Two California senators introduce a bill that would bar prosecutors from trying juveniles 15 years old and younger in adult court. The proposal that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Holly J. Mitchell, Jeff Stone, Los Angeles Times, Ricardo Lara, Youth Offender, youth offenders

Life of crime overturned by positive choices

May 26, 2018 by John Lam

Younger brother Tony Douangmalalay, niece Caylen, Mother Pat, nephew C.J. and younger brother Caven

A variety of rehabilitative programs, including dance, helped Anouthinh Pangthong turn his life around despite a rocky youth and 21 years in prison … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anouthinh Panthong, crack dealers, First Step curriculum, kid cat, refugee camp in Thailand, Restoring Our Original True Selves, ROOTS, San Quentin Utilizing Inmate Resources Experiences and Studies, Solitary confinement, SQUIRES, Tony Douangmalalay, Youth Offender

Reforms in Illinois juvenile system blocked by youth assaults

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

Reforms in Illinois’ juvenile justice system are under attack by prosecutors who are responding to a steady flow of staff complaints to law … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Eddie Caumiant, Harrisburg Illinois Youth Center, Jayson Clark, Jennifer Vollen-Katz, John Howard Association, ProPublica, Youth Offender

Black incarceration on the decline

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

Jail Cell

The percentages of Blacks and Whites being incarcerated are converging. Nationally, Black incarceration rates are dropping, while Whites are on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Gelb, Black and White incarceration, Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, Fordham University, John Pfaff, Marshall Project, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Sentencing Project, The Washington Post

Advocates raise issues regarding incarcerated women

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

A woman sitting in one of the United States’ many jail cells around the country

Issues regarding incarcerated females have been raised by five female criminal justice advocates at the 2018 American Conservative Union’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference, christian post, CPAC, Jessica Jackson Sloan, Kate Trammel, Kathleen Dennehy, Prison Fellowship, U.S. Justice Action Network

States seeking lethal injection cocktails from black market

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

California Death Penality

Some states have turned to the black market to obtain scarce lethal injection drugs that have caused botched executions, according to www.Reason.com. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: C.J. Ciaramella, Ciaramella, cisatracurium besylate, executions, FDA, fentanyl, Harris Pharma, Midazolam, Reason Magazine

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