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On Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee held an interim study looking at incentivizing greater voluntary use of gun safes through tax exemptions.Sen. Jo Anna
In Minnesota, as in much of the country, alternative approaches to handling youth crimes have been slow to gain public support. But Colorado has overcome these obstacles through a series of hard-won legislative victories and a commitment to measuring outcomes.
Since June 28, 2004 May 27, 2021 "What's the right age for juvenile criminals to be considered adults? Advocates and some states push it past 20." The title of this post is the headline of this notable recent lengthy Four years ago, juvenile justice advocates celebrated a huge win: North Carolina ended its status as the last state in the nation that automatically considered anyone 16 years old or older an adult in the criminal justice system. When North Carolina raised the age to 18, the change was more than a dozen years in the making. Now, advocates are setting their sights — and ...
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The raise-the-age movement for juveniles was thrilled when it got all but Texas, Georgia and Wisconsin to raise the juvenile system cutoff age to 18.