Reforms for NY's Juvenile Justice System Fail in the Legislature

If enacted, Myrie's bill would also have limited the length of prison terms for young adults; increased judicial discretion to offer ...

In New York, a Debate Over Youth Justice Reform - The Imprint News

The Raise the Age reform diverted the vast majority of non-violent cases involving 16- and 17-year olds from adult criminal court to Family Court.

Soft-on-crime 'Raise the Age' law packed 'ill-prepared' NYC juvenile ...

The measure, and a bail reform package passed by the state legislature the following year, “have fundamentally altered the juvenile detention ...

System Reforms to Reduce Youth Incarceration: Why We Must ...

Narrow the pipeline to incarceration in the early stages of the justice system process: avoiding arrests for less serious behavior; diverting ...

Regarding Legislation to Raise the Age - NYCLU

New York's current juvenile and criminal justice systems fails to appreciate the cognitive and developmental differences of youth, and as a ...

Reforming “Raise the Age” | Manhattan Institute

In the 1970s, this simple age-determines-court system started to break down, with a series of reforms, culminating in the juvenile offender (JO) ...

New York Judge Calls for Major Reforms in State's Juvenile Justice ...

It is a move that would require a reorganization of the state's juvenile justice system and would have to be approved by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a ...

Restoring the Juvenile Justice System Leaves Courts Legislating ...

With New York's enactment of the Raise the Age law, the. State's Legislature codified the omnipresent notion that juveniles processed in the ...

How New York State Just Rolled Back Criminal Justice Reforms

The budget also closes a jurisdictional “gap,” per Hochul's memo, by giving family courts jurisdiction over those arraigned as adults for a ...

reflections on juvenile justice reform in new york - John Jay College

In a stance that earned her friends and detractors alike, Commissioner Carrion openly stated that New York's system of juvenile placement needs ...

Criminal Justice Reform Is Not for the Short-Winded - Fordham Law

11. However, the. New York Legislature's failure to revisit its 1962 tentative decision to ... reform the juvenile justice system and finally raise the age of ...

The Downside of New York's Discovery and Bail Reform Laws

But we must consider fairness for whom exactly? New York's criminal justice system would soon face consequences that none of the legislators ...

Why Youth Incarceration Fails: An Updated Review of the Evidence

A 2013 study of more than 35,000 youth in the juvenile justice system of Cook County (Chicago), Illinois, found that incarceration in a locked ...

Foreword: The Past, Present, and Future of Juvenile Justice Reform ...

significant reforms of the juvenile justice system in New York. I. GAULT AND ... New York state legislature enacted a set of changes to the Family Court Act.

Op-Ed: Time to Amend State's Shameful Juvenile Justice Policy ...

Juvenile justice reforms should go further than what the governor has proposed. We must ensure that young people's mistakes do not stay on their ...

The Criminal Justice Reform Bill You've Never Heard Of

With much less fanfare, the Senate on Tuesday passed major juvenile justice legislation that has been postponed and picked over for more than a ...

Legislative Reforms in Juvenile Detention and the Justice System

Once a young person is in the juvenile justice sys- tem, alternatives to secure detention can still be em- ployed. In 2013, New York passed the “Close to. Home ...

Policy analysis on the State of New York's raise the age legislation

... juvenile justice system but is on track to providing to the larger movement towards criminal justice system reform. Keywords: youth, juvenile justice, court ...

The Criminal Justice Reform Act: One Year Later - New York City ...

The Criminal Justice Reform Act (CJRA) was signed into law on June 13, 2016, and has now led to a 90 percent drop in criminal court summonses.

Legislation to Protect Children During Custodial Police Interrogation

As recent successful reforms in New York's youth justice system reflect, children are not the same as adults. Both socioemotional and neural development ...