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Reentry Starts Here
This toolkit, Reentry Starts Here: A Guide for Youth in Long-Term Juvenile Corrections and Treatment...
National Juvenile Defender Center: 10 Tips
10 Tips for Building Effective Youth-Family-Defender Partnerships
Juvenile Offenders One Day 2014 1 page chart & description
Information about youth in residential placement and the facilities that hold these youth are based on...
Juvenile Justice Ministry Start Up Guide
What is Juvenile Justice Ministry (JJM)? JJM is one of six core programs serving youth throughout the...
Juvenile by State...2014
List of Juveniles incarcerated in each state in 2014
Justice for Girls
Improving the Juvenile Justice System for Girls: Lessons from the States examines the challenges facing...
Justice For Families: Family & Youth as Partners
Justice for Families (J4F) is national network of family leaders, impacted by the justicesystem, working...
Five Areas for Change: Juvenile Justice
Juvenile courts in the United States ostensibly operate with the overarching goals of holding youth accountable...
Fact Sheet--Facilities
In 2006, more than 2,000 residential juvenile justice facilities in the United States housed more than...
Women in Jails: Overlooked in Era of Reform
Despite recent calls to reform the criminal justice system in light of increasing numbers of incarcerated...
US Dept of Justice: Capital Punishment 2014-2015
This report provides information on persons under sentence of death on December 31, 2014, and December...
The Growth of Rural Jails
As concern in the United States has grown over the number of people behind bars, policymakers and the...