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Children in the Justice System

Elizabeth S. Scott, Emily Buss and David D. Meyer | March 29, 2018 | Children and the Law

Children and the Law Restatement Reporters Elizabeth Scott, Emily Buss, and David Meyer highlight the ways in which children are different from adults, particularly the heightened vulnerability when in police custody in the video below. Project Feature: Children and...

Experts applaud decision to close Lincoln Hills and form other teen prisons

Hunter Saenz | January 22, 2018 | Children and the Law, Sentencing

WKOW 27: Madison, WI Breaking News, Weather and Sports MADISON (WKOW) — It’s a decision that’s being applauded by some who say closing Lincoln Hills may help teens. But others warn it’s just the first stop to fixing a broken path in the...

Finality and the Capital/Non-Capital Punishment Divide

Carissa Byrne Hessick | December 11, 2017 | Children and the Law, Sentencing

ABSTRACTThis book chapter examines the role that concerns about finality have played in both capital cases and juvenile life-without-parole sentencing cases. It will describe how finality has shaped the Supreme Court’s death penalty cases, as well as the role it has...

Louisiana’s public defenders face financial burden with new juvenile prisoner law

Julia O'Donoghue | November 21, 2017 | Children and the Law, Sentencing

New hearings for five prisoners sentenced for murder as juveniles could be so expensive for the Jefferson Parish Public Defenders Office that the agency could end up laying off attorneys. A state law that went into effect this year makes juveniles given life sentences...

More States Need to Halt Prosecution of Youth as Adults

Maureen Washburn | November 10, 2017 | Children and the Law, Sentencing

This month marks one year since the passage of Proposition 57, a California ballot measure that prohibited district attorneys from filing charges against youth as young as 14 directly in adult criminal court through a practice known as “direct file.” The initiative...
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