What follows are brief definitions of key terms or additional information about phrases used in the juvenile justice field in discussions about youth reentry after incarceration or rehabilitation.

Equal Justice USA (EJUSA) announced October 8 that it will partner with four new communities to build new restorative youth justice diversion programs. These programs serve as an offramp for youth, ...

Baltimore’s top elected official vowed to reinstate a curfew last month after a 14-year-old and 16-year-old were shot and injured — allegedly by a teen wielding an untraceable gun made from a kit — ...

Of 1,762 confirmed incidents of youth being sexually harassed, abused or assaulted in juvenile facilities from 2013 through 2018, roughly 28.3% involved adult staff victimizing youth and 71.6% ...

Bullied at his Philadelphia high school, Earl Morris’ son started defying his teachers and his father and allegedly stole from a convenience store. Those charges against the then 15-year-old, who’d ...

The number of children incarcerated in juvenile prisons across the United States fell to an all-time low in 2020, the latest year of available federal data about those facilities, fueling proponents’ ...

Tennesseean Almeer Nance, a juvenile lifer, was featured in this 2021 Al Jazeera documentary. Almeer Nance was 16 when, with a 20-year-old acquaintance, he walked into a Knoxville, Tennessee, Radio ...

Rion Schofield was selling drugs at 13. By age 15, he was carrying a gun. “I was riding my bike and breaking into cars and came across my first one,” he said. “Eventually, over time, I had quite a few ...

ST. GEORGE, UTAH—At the end of the two years he spent at a juvenile detention center in Ogden, Utah, Chase returned to his hometown with a high school diploma and 19.5 college credits, and a plan to ...

Assaults and threats against teachers. Parents fighting students; parents fighting each other. Pepper spray, police, arrests. Several of those brawls at Madison, Wisconsin’s East High School were ...

While jailed on drug charges at New York City’s Rikers Island in 1994, Marilyn Reyes received medical treatment to curb her heroin addiction. But once Reyes, then in her 20s, was convicted and ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his wrists. The panic as he was led outside into the cold March darkness, arms raised, to face a wall of police ...