R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy writes eloquently in Ebony that blacks must engage young people in open and honest discussions about prison in order to help them avoid getting ensnared in the life. Sadly, ...

It should be a crime that America locks up so much of its youths. Right now the United States has more than 60,000 children sitting in jail, lost in a broken system that has led our country to ...

In Texas, only kids convicted of a felony or a probation violation for a felony could be sent to youth prisons, which is reserved for the most serious crimes. Critics and experts say Tarrant’s ...

Across Pennsylvania, an estimated 65,459 children have a parent in jail or prison. That’s according to a recent email inquiry to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Nationwide, nearly half of ...

New Laws Prohibit Extreme Sentencing, Bar Incarceration of Youth in Adult Prisons, and Set a Minimum Age of 12 for Prosecution ...we are creating a justice system that sees children as they are: still ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julie Poehlmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Across ...