Lauren Klosinski | March 8, 2021 | Children and the Law
State lawmakers in Maine are looking at a bill that would ban the prosecution of young children. If the plan passes, Maine would be one of only three states to set a minimum age of 12 years old for people who can face criminal prosecution. As part of an ongoing effort...
Lauren Klosinski | February 2, 2021 | Children and the Law
The Support Center for Child Advocates, led by Executive Director Frank P. Cervone, was recently profiled by Visionaries, a documentary series. The Support Center’s mission is to advocate for victims of child abuse and neglect with the goal of securing safety,...
Kristin Nicole Henning, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott, Marsha Levick and Jennifer Morinigo | December 23, 2020 | Children and the Law
The treatment of the children in two distinct areas of the law – child welfare and juvenile justice – is fraught with difficulty even under the best of circumstances. But with the onslaught of the COVID pandemic, the regular challenges and the need to protect children...
Jaymes V. Fairfax-Columbo, Sarah Fishel and David DeMatteo | September 11, 2020 | Children and the Law
ABSTRACTIn two recent cases, the United States Supreme Court abolished mandatory juvenile life without parole (LWOP; Miller v. Alabama, 2012) and held that the ban applies retroactively (Montgomery v. Louisiana, 2016). Pointedly, the Court suggested that juveniles...
Calah Schlabach, José-Ignacio Castañeda Perez, Matthew Hendley and Layne Dowdall | September 10, 2020 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law
This article was originally published by “Kids Imprisoned,” a project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, on Aug. 21, 2020. View the original post here. On a morning he should have been in middle school, 12-year-old Isaac Durham collapsed on the sidewalk after...
