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"One concrete action—NY State Assembly Bill 2025-A767—would establish a Youth Justice Innovation Fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of preventing youth…

ByMichaelle C. Solages

ByChristine Pahigian 4Comments

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Sep 2024

Education Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Shaping the Future for Our Youths, Through Our Youths

“It is vital that we increase programming opportunities for youth and make them meaningful options in Youth Parts, a special court created after the Raise the Age law was passed.”

ByOrayne Williams 0Comments

04

Jun 2024

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Safeguarding Children’s Right to Remain Silent in New York

“New York has an opportunity to become one of the first states to require that children speak with a lawyer before waiving their right to remain silent.”

ByJulie Garcia 0Comments

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Dec 2022

Education Government Justice Opinion Politics

Opinion: Expanding NY’s Youth Justice Laws is an Investment in the Future of Our Communities

“The Youth Justice & Opportunities Act would expand existing protections and limit the lifelong negative consequences that stem from prosecution for actions young people take before they reach full maturity.”

ByZellnor Myrie

ByDaniel O'Donnell 0Comments

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Apr 2022

Government Justice Opinion Politics

Opinion: We Cannot Afford to Play Politics With Young People’s Lives

“I know firsthand the toll that adult prosecution takes on teenagers. When I was 17 years old, I was arrested, charged, and sentenced as an adult, and ultimately spent 10 years…

ByRob DeLeon 1Comment

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Mar 2022

Education Government Justice Opinion Politics

Opinion: To Increase Public Safety, New York Must Invest in Families

“We must reject efforts to roll back Raise the Age and stop scapegoating children and youth for the decades-long failure of government to invest equitably in them and their communities…

ByJennifer March 1Comment

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Apr 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Mayor de Blasio, Release Juvenile Detainees

‘We write to express our concern over the city’s failure to sufficiently address the health risks faced by our clients in detention, and we call upon the mayor to release…

ByMcKay Campbell 0Comments

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Mar 2018

Education Investigations Justice

Program Keeping Convicted Youths Closer to Home Enjoys Success, Faces Cuts

‘Close to Home’ has hit a few bumps in the six years since the state launched the pilot program. But a proposal to shift costs to the city is the…

ByWendy Davis 1Comment

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Jul 2015

Uncategorized

Did Rikers Policy Experiment Look at the Right Policies?

A first-of-its-kind “social impact bond” project that tried to reduce recidivism among youths jailed on Rikers Island is being hailed as a success even though the results disappointed.