Juvenile justice

Everything on juvenile justice

2026 · 16 articles

• Youth Tried as Adults: Life Sentences, Trauma, and the Failure of America’s Juvenile Justice System

  July 15, 2026

• Only One Country Denies Children Basic Rights: The United States

  June 27, 2026

• International Rights of the Child Treaty (& why jails are full)

  June 19, 2026

• Childhood Trauma Is a War Injury: How ACEs Rewire the Brain and Fuel Crime

  June 16, 2026

• The Real Cost of Child Maltreatment, CPS, and Recidivism

  June 12, 2026

• How Foster Care and Group Homes Fail America’s Most Troubled Children

  June 6, 2026

• “Safety” at Home, Rape in Secret: The Long Shadow of Caregiver Sexual Abuse

  June 6, 2026

• Part 5 of 5: Crime Dollar ROI From Early Childhood Programs

  May 20, 2026

• Child Abuse & Prosecution in Texas: Kids, Courts, and a Broken System

  May 6, 2026

• Sometimes People Get Shot

  May 4, 2026

• “Illiteracy and Incarceration: What Ruben Rosario Got Right”

  April 12, 2026

• Nation Out of Step: An Early Childhood Education Manifesto for 2026

  March 25, 2026

• “What We Do to Our Children” Is What We Do to Our Future

  March 20, 2026

• Missing Information: How Deleted Federal Data Blinds the Public

  March 19, 2026

• The Quantum Mechanics of Childhood Abuse & Trauma

  February 28, 2026

• Universal Rights Of The Child; All Talk No Action

  February 18, 2026

2025 · 2 articles

• Child Protection That Works Better

  November 16, 2025

• Child Friendly Models That Work Series (part 3)

  September 21, 2025

2024 · 3 articles

• Child Abuse Articles December 2024

  December 20, 2024

• If I Only Had a Brain

  October 20, 2024

• Expecting Different Results From Prison for Kids

  October 9, 2024

2023 · 6 articles

• Math For Legislators (cost of youth crime) Part 1

  February 7, 2023

• 49 % of America's Black Youth Arrested Before Their 23rd Birthday (40% of White Youth)

  January 25, 2023

• Metrics of Minnesota's Child Protection (what does your state measure?)

  January 19, 2023

• Policing Abused Children & How Not To

  January 17, 2023

• Kids, Race & the Supreme Court

  January 7, 2023

• Juveniles In Justice

  January 1, 2023

2022 · 9 articles

• For Profit Youth Prisons

  December 30, 2022

• Criminalizing Elementary School Children

  December 13, 2022

• Juvenile Injustice In MN (thank you KARE 11)

  December 8, 2022

• MN Child Abuse News Week of 11.30.22

  December 1, 2022

• The Cost of Tough on Crime (in tax dollars and public safety)

  November 12, 2022

• 30.2 % of America's Youth Arrested Before Their 23rd Birthday (25% of us are state wards & special needs people)

  September 22, 2022

• Tasered and Tried as Adults

  August 3, 2022

• American Crime Costs & Statistics

  July 17, 2022

• Other People's Children Are Not Society's Problem - Senator Ron Johnson

  January 30, 2022

2021 · 7 articles

• Child Rights, Religion & the United Nations Rights of the Child Treaty

  December 24, 2021

• Arresting Sobbing Eight Year Old Children In Tennessee

  October 9, 2021

• THE COST OF PUNISHING DAMAGED CHILDREN

  August 4, 2021

• ACE Study, Crime & Ramsey County (reprinted from 2006)

  July 3, 2021

• For Profit Youth Prisons & False Imprisonment

  June 3, 2021

• Juvenile Injustice, Race & the Supreme Court

  April 23, 2021

• Post COVID Juvenile Justice Trends (Casey Foundation Surveys)

  April 8, 2021

2020 · 7 articles

• Tasered and Tried as Adults - Police Training, Resources & Courts Meet America's At Risk Children

  November 29, 2020

• Restorative Justice - Veterans & Children (saves money and lives)

  October 25, 2020

• Criminalizing Elementary School Children (policing our schools & punishment)

  September 26, 2020

• Policing Abused Children & Why It Can't Be Done

  June 28, 2020

• MN At Risk Children News 2.28.20

  February 28, 2020

• Tortured Twice In Louisiana; A Sad Abused Ten Year Old Boy Facing Prison For Escaping His Abuser

  February 25, 2020

• KARA's Sad Stories, Statistics and Articles State By State & International

  January 8, 2020

2019 · 11 articles

• Sad Stories Child Abuse - Child Death Articles & Statistics

  December 18, 2019

• Early Education (return on investment)

  December 18, 2019

• Infant Death Stories & Statistics October 2019 (find your state here)

  October 10, 2019

• It Didn't Start In a Vacuum (crime - impact & statistics)

  August 5, 2019

• The Data Is In - Child Abuse is a Public Health Crisis

  July 22, 2019

• Hard to Watch; Immigration & Children as Political Footballs

  July 16, 2019

• MN Mesabi Academy, St Cloud Group Home & Florida (privatized group homes in America)

  July 12, 2019

• National Workshop On Adult & Juvenile Female Offenders

  February 27, 2019

• USA, Give Children the Rights EVERY Other Nation Has

  February 18, 2019

• Recent Child Burns/Torture Reporting & Statistics

  January 10, 2019

• Recent Infant Abuse Death Reports & Statistics

  January 1, 2019

2018 · 12 articles

• August 2018 Sad Stories (child trafficking & sex abuse)

  September 17, 2018

• July Child Sex Abuse/Child Trafficking (part 4)

  August 21, 2018

• Medicating Very Young Children July 2018 (part 6)

  August 16, 2018

• Child Sex Abuse for July 2018 (part 4)

  August 9, 2018

• July 2018 Child Abuse / Child Protection (part 3)

  August 8, 2018

• Infant & Child Death July 2018 (part 2)

  August 3, 2018

• July Domestic Violence & Violence Against Children (part 1)

  August 2, 2018

• Child & Infant Death June 2018

  July 8, 2018

• Domestic Violence & Violence Against Children for June 2018

  July 6, 2018

• Criminalizing Mental Illness (statistics & stories)

  July 2, 2018

• Domestic & International Violence Against Children (May 2018) 3

  June 24, 2018

• Sad Stories Part VII Feb 13-28 (child protection - find your state here)

  March 25, 2018

2017 · 7 articles

• Sad Stories December 2017 Part III (child abuse stories & articles from your state)

  December 31, 2017

• Child Abuse Statistics and Facts December 2017

  December 27, 2017

• Statistics & Data About America's Abused Children

  November 22, 2017

• September Sad Stories 2017 Part I

  October 5, 2017

• August Sad Stories Part II

  September 20, 2017

• July Sad Stories Part I

  August 4, 2017

• Minnesota Child Protection News March 2017

  March 31, 2017

2016 · 9 articles

• 200,000 Youth Tried As Adults Each Year; Temple University

  November 16, 2016

• Go To Jail Go Directly To Jail (and be branded for life)

  October 27, 2016

• Deliberate Burns Make Up 10 % of All Childhood Burn Cases

  September 6, 2016

• International Child Protection News August 2016

  September 5, 2016

• Children Locked Up in America (Radio Interview)

  August 30, 2016

• August Sad Stories (part 1)

  August 19, 2016

• I'm Not The Crazy One (20,000 one & two year old's on Prozac - now that's crazy)

  June 10, 2016

• New York Child Protection News December 2015- January 2016

  February 12, 2016

• January Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)

  January 30, 2016

2015 · 7 articles

• December Sad Stories

  December 22, 2015

• Imprisoned Judges & Police Officers In Pennsylvania (still sending innocent people to jail - by the thousands)

  August 8, 2015

• How We Punish - And What It Does To Children & Our Community

  August 6, 2015

• NO DEMAND, NO SUPPLY

  July 30, 2015

• Growing Up In America (do we value children?)

  July 3, 2015

• Sad Children Stories From February

  February 28, 2015

• Important Points By Brandon Stahl (Star Tribune) Today On Pope County

  February 28, 2015

2014 · 10 articles

• Dear Governor Dayton's Task Force On Child Protection (for the record)

  November 26, 2014

• Elephant In The Room (Mitch Pearlstein PAST Star Tribune)

  November 8, 2014

• Child Protection News - Your State Here (Texas and Florida are tied once more)

  October 19, 2014

• Privatized Juvenile Prisons - Kids For Cash The Movie (watch the trailer)

  September 17, 2014

• What's The Difference? (and why we should care)

  August 17, 2014

• About Women In Prison (most are primary caregivers, many lose their children forever)

  August 5, 2014

• Brutal Truths and Worst Practices (America's injustice System)

  June 16, 2014

• Spanking Babies & Jailing Juveniles (Linked In Conversation)

  March 17, 2014

• The Race To Incarcerate Women (this does not bode well for children)

  January 26, 2014

• Florida, The Land Of Oranges & Prosecuting 14 Year Olds As Adults (sentenced to 70 years - for robbery)

  January 20, 2014

2013 · 16 articles

• Punishing The Mentally Ill (Minnesota is not alone)

  December 11, 2013

• How We Treat Children

  November 20, 2013

• It Has Always Been Hard For Poor Children

  November 9, 2013

• Mental Health Public Policy - Seeking Your Input

  October 6, 2013

• Reading Test Scores & Prison Populations

  September 25, 2013

• Schools Criminalizing American Children

  September 14, 2013

• America’s Amazingly False Answers To Mental Health Issues

  September 8, 2013

• Punishing Mental Health Problems With Horrid Juvenile Justice; In Many States, This Is The Rule, Not The Exception

  August 11, 2013

• Children Of The Incarcerated; Collateral Damage

  July 3, 2013

• It Can't Happen Here

  June 29, 2013

• Religious Freedom In Philadelphia Kills 2 Young children (4 years apart, same home)

  May 29, 2013

• Judges Jailing Children For Money In America (yes it happens)

  April 30, 2013

• Texas Wins Again (Criminalizing 300,000 students / year)

  April 13, 2013

• Protect Children In the Justice System

  March 18, 2013

• Supporting America's Economy With Bigger Prisons & Longer Sentencing (thank you Jonathan Swift)

  March 2, 2013

• Bigger Armies & More Wars - Why Americans Hate Children

  February 14, 2013

2012 · 9 articles

• Our Only Hope For A Safe, Livable America; Talking About Mental Health

  December 16, 2012

• Bastards; How Yesterday’s Rejection Of The Disabilities Treaty Damages America’s Children

  December 5, 2012

• Promoting Prisons As Public Policy

  November 30, 2012

• America The Beautiful (unless you're born an at risk child)

  November 5, 2012

• Everything Seems To Be Wrong With Them; The Other America

  September 3, 2012

• Court Rules American Children Will No Longer Be Incarcerated For Life (& we recently quit executing juveniles)

  June 27, 2012

• Louisiana Children Don’t Stand A Chance.

  May 27, 2012

• Children Murdered In Kentucky, Governor Beshear Hides The Evidence

  April 30, 2012

• Growing Up Inner City

  January 29, 2012

2011 · 7 articles

• Thank You Indiana

  October 23, 2011

• Save Cristian Fernanedez 12 Years Old Sign the MoveOn Petition

  October 2, 2011

• The Floggings Will Continue Until The Test Scores Improve

  July 17, 2011

• 202 Minnesota Child Deaths Examined (over half were under three & shaken or beaten to death)

  May 5, 2011

• What's It Gonna Take? Judge Lucy Wieland Is Dead Right

  April 16, 2011

• David's Question For Liberals & Conservatives

  March 27, 2011

• He Would Wander The Streets With His Dog Looking For His Mother When He Was A Boy; Abandoned As An Infant - Executed at 37

  March 11, 2011

2010 · 14 articles

• America By Heart

  November 25, 2010

• 75% Of Inmates Are Illiterate (19% are completely illiterate) Ruben Rosario

  November 18, 2010

• A Great Rally for Children In MN (Thanks Amy)

  October 19, 2010

• Raised By The Courts, A Judge’s Insight Into Juvenile Justice

  October 12, 2010

• 254 Children, 220,000 Crimes, 12 Months

  October 4, 2010

• Advanced or Stupid? It's How You Frame It.

  June 3, 2010

• Education Is The Engine of Progress & Prosperity

  March 13, 2010

• Abandoning Abandoned Children

  March 12, 2010

• Abusing Children At Home & In School - The Life Of An Abused Child

  March 7, 2010

• Civil Justice, Mental Health, Children, Education, & Politics

  February 17, 2010

• Health & Human Services In Minnesota (Largest Share of Budget Cuts)

  February 16, 2010

• Friends of Texas vs Friends of Children

  January 25, 2010

• Texas Blog Sequel

  January 20, 2010

• Growing Up In America

  January 8, 2010

2009 · 5 articles

• 150,000 Children Tried As Adults Each Year

  December 17, 2009

• New York, Meet Missouri

  December 14, 2009

• Unmaking At Risk Children

  November 12, 2009

• Minnesota; Let Them Eat New Stadium

  June 25, 2009

• Tip Of The Iceberg

  June 4, 2009

2008 · 2 articles

• What We Do To Our Children, They will Do To Us

  June 15, 2008

• California Dreaming

  April 6, 2008

2007 · 1 articles

• By Definition

  July 4, 2007

2006 · 2 articles

• Call To Justice Forum June 28th

  June 30, 2006

• Economic Security

  April 22, 2006

2005 · 6 articles

• Missouri Model

  December 17, 2005

• guardian conference

  November 12, 2005

• 100 Years of Juvenile Justice

  November 5, 2005

• Saving Money Saving Children

  September 21, 2005

• Intelligent Design

  June 5, 2005

• Abused Children and Crime

  May 24, 2005