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Government Promises to End the Detention of Minors in an Adult Regime
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Statement from Children's Rights Alliance By Tanya Ward, Chief Executive of Children's Rights Alliance The Children's Rights Alliance congratulates the Government’s promise to end the detention of 16- and 17-year-old boys in St. Patrick’s Institution. This is a momentous achievement for the Minister for Children…
Resource type: News
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Zero-Tolerance Policy Creates a School-to-Prison Pipeline
Source: New America Media
Interview by Jacob SimasEDITOR'S NOTE: Schools across the nation are increasingly adopting punitive measures as a way to control and deter violence and other disruptive behaviors. These “zero-tolerance” policies can encompass anything from metal detectors to increased police presence on school campuses to the handing…
Resource type: News
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ID on demand ruled unconstitutional
Source: Irish Times
MARY CAROLAN and JAMIE SMYTHA PROVISION of the Immigration Act forcing non-Irish nationals to produce ID on demand to a garda or face a criminal conviction has been ruled “unconstitutional” by the High Court.Immigrant groups welcomed the landmark judgment, which they said would help fight…
Resource type: News
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Legal matchmaker joining resources and genuine need
Source: Business Day
By Katy Chance. IT SEEMS entirely apposite that ProBono.Org has the street address of Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill; free legal work in SA may have had its roots in the criminal domain, but for services in matters of civil and public interest today, all roads…
Resource type: News
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Citing Cost, States Consider End to Death Penalty
Source: The New York Times
by IAN URBINA ANNAPOLIS, Md. — When Gov. Martin O’Malley appeared before the Maryland Senate last week, he made an unconventional argument that is becoming increasingly popular in cash-strapped states: abolish the death penalty to cut costs. Mr. O’Malley, a Democrat and a Roman Catholic who has…
Resource type: News
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Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By ADAM LIPTAK President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority…
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A man with so much to spend but so little time
Source: Financial Times
One evening last spring, as a fierce north-easter tore through the New York region, Gara LaMarche settled in to watch The Sopranos and bake batches of muffins. The next morning, baked goodies safely stowed in Ziploc bags, he set off for the offices of The…
Resource type: News
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'Burning Down The House' Makes The Case Against Juvenile Incarceration
Source: NPR
By NPR StaffThe American rate of juvenile incarceration is seven times that of Great Britain, and 18 times that of France. It costs, on average, $88,000 a year to keep a youth locked up — far more than the U.S. spends on a child's education.But…
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Beyond Belief
Source: StoryCorps
Mary Johnson found forgiveness for Oshea Israel, the young man who murdered her son as a teenager. The two now live next door to one another. Witness to Innocence is a grantee (via a re-grant from Proteus Action League) of Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights…
Resource type: Video
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To Keep Kids Out of Trouble—And Prison—Teach Them to Understand Their Emotions
Source: YES! Magazine
A restorative circle at MetWest High School in Oakland, Calif. Image by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Oakland Unified School District.After teaching students to understand and talk through their conflicts, schools in Denver and Los Angeles have seen major reductions in disciplinary action.By Katherine…
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