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New York project aims to narrow gap between minority versus white juvies sent...
A project aiming to grant more Black and brown youth entry to community-based programs that are an alternative to juvenile incarceration will be implemented in five upstate New York counties, the New...
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Nonprofits push parole reform and housing for parolees
Advocates for the #LessIsMoreAct rallied outside of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office at 633 3rd Avenue to demand that he sign the Less Is More Act into law that includes affordable housing for...
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A New York City detention-diversion project is reserved for girls and queer...
Since it launched last October, 25 youth have enrolled in a three-year pilot project that pays girls and queer youth involved in the criminal justice system, or who are at-risk for winding up there, to...
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Amid nationwide debate about police in schools, a few districts recently...
For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School safety agents,” she said, using their...
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Millions in seized money expanded Harlem youth hub’s “credible messenger”...
Just weeks into his second prison stay — serving a 23-month sentence for charges including gun possession and attempted murder — Dedric “Bad News” Hammond decided to course-correct. He found a path...
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Medical treatments for substance use disorders are slated for all New York...
While jailed on drug charges at New York City’s Rikers Island in 1994, Marilyn Reyes received medical treatment to curb her heroin addiction. But once Reyes, then in her 20s, was convicted and...
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Q&A: Long Island judge seeks collaboration among trauma-focused child welfare...
The “T” in ConcepTS stands for Terry. At 19, he died by suicide after completing an incarceration-diversion program that kept him out of prison for robbery. He’d been physically and sexually abused in...
View ArticleUpcoming study aims to gauge prevalence and impact of traumatic brain injury...
Traumatic brain injury among juvenile offenders will be assessed as part of a three-year research project that’s slated to enroll the first of roughly 110 youth and young adult study participants in...
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A gang-banger since 8th grade, former Blood sets a new course with a former...
Charles Kennebrew tours the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Videographer: Micah Danney Three months after the gang he’d been devoted to lured Charles...
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What happened after Minneapolis removed police officers from schools
A month after the murder of George Floyd, the Minneapolis school board voted to end its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department to staff schools with armed school resource officers and tasked...
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