SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Gov. Mike Kehoe made juvenile justice reform a top priority, and Missouri lawmakers are taking action. A new bill being considered by the Missouri House of Representatives ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — In Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s final State of the State address, she made it clear public safety reform is an expectation and not a suggestion. It’s been the same expectation in ...

MISSOURI, USA — Police chiefs and lawmakers across Missouri are pushing for changes to the juvenile justice system. They say repeat offenders are cycling through with little accountability. As ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — With less than 24 hours remaining in New Mexico’s legislative session, a key juvenile justice reform bill championed by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and law enforcement ...

As legislators begin to gather in Annapolis, we encourage them to finally commit to meaningful juvenile justice reform as it relates to removing the automatic waiver of juveniles into the adult ...

After several years of stumbles, the Maryland Senate passed legislation Friday to reduce the instance of minors being charged in adult criminal court. “I’m very proud of the Senate and our work on ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

BALTIMORE — The Maryland General Assembly has passed the Youth Charging Reform Act, reforming which offenses minors are automatically charged as adults for, and what type of facilities they can be ...

A scaled-back version of the Maryland bill to reduce auto-charging children in adult court and to house minors charged as adults in non-adult facilities is set to pass out of the State Senate on ...

Juvenile justice is at the threshold of a new period of legal and policy reform in which policymakers are more open to the relevance of scientific knowledge about adolescents in responding to juvenile ...