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Illinois Must End Youth Incarceration, Not “Transform” It An incarcerated youth at Illinois Youth Center at Warrenville, the state's maximum-security prison for girls, reads on her bed on June 27, 2007. Heather Stone / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images By Even amid a deadly pandemic, in the U.S., there are over 37,000 children currently detained or incarcerated in environments where social distancing is impossible. The most recent update from Chicago’s Juvenile Temporary Detention Center was in November, when the chief judge’s office announced that a...

Virtual conference hosted by Utah colleges disrupted by hackers Online hackers hijacked a virtual conference co-hosted by Salt Lake Community College and University of Utah. and last updated 2021-02-19 23:39:44-05 TAYLORSVILLE, Utah — Online hackers hijacked a virtual conference co-hosted by Salt Lake Community College and University of Utah. “We were told, ‘We will kill you,’” said Ken-Gay Lee, a SLCC student. Four hours into the nation-wide virtual Transformative Justice and Abolition Criminology Conference, hackers posted five minutes of disturbing videos, traumati...

As attacks on Asian communities rise, so must understanding and solidarity between Asian and Black communities to challenge the real enemy, White supremacy.

TRENTON — There’s a push underway in the Legislature to allocate nearly $17 million over two years for efforts focused on revamping New Jersey’s youth justice system, specifically focused on Camden, Newark, Paterson and Trenton. The bill, A4663/S2924, has gotten a hearing but no votes and has become a leading priority for civil-rights organizations and like-minded lawmakers, who say the state spends $56 million a year to run its three secure juvenile facilities but only $16 million on funds for community-based youth programs. “The new normal needs to be restorative,” said Assemblywo...

Save the Kids is a national nonprofit devoted to keeping youth from being institutionalized in the carceral system.