01/03/2023
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12/30/2022
As 2022 comes to a close, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange would like to wish you a happy new year. Every dollar donated during NewsMatch helps the Center for Sustainable Journalism, publisher of JJIE, continue its mission to produce distinctive, investigative, fair and balanced journalism. https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
12/26/2022
The extraordinary surge in gun-carrying by teens comes with a heavy cost
By age 15, Rion Schofield was carrying a gun. He got caught up in the juvenile justice system. When he was not yet 20, he went to prison for dealing stolen property. Years later, he was incarcerated again for second degree attempted murder with a . https://bit.ly/GVTeens
A new study that finds handgun carriage by adolescents has gone up significantly over the past two decades. The jump — 41% — was especially pronounced among rural, white, and higher-income adolescents, according to the study, which was published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The study w...
12/23/2022
Study: More girls are carrying guns
While male teens are still more likely to carry handguns than females, the rate at which girls and young women are carrying handguns is rising more quickly, a published earlier this year in the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests. https://bit.ly/GirlsGunsStudy
While male teens are still more likely to carry handguns than females, the rate at which girls and young women are carrying handguns is rising more quickly, a study published earlier this year in the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests. “This is probably the newest trend,” said the Rev. Kenn...
12/23/2022
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12/21/2022
The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange wishes you a joyous holiday season! Thank you for the continued support throughout this year.
12/20/2022
We are thrilled to share that The Raikes Foundation has awarded JJIE a matching donation of $12,500 for its annual NewsMatch campaign. We cannot do this work without your support. Use this opportunity to amplify your impact: https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
12/19/2022
Happy Holidays! You can help JJIE unlock a bonus gift during our annual gift-matching campaign, NewsMatch. By receiving gifts from 100 or more new donors (no matter the donation size), JJIE will be awarded an additional $1,000. Donate today: https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
12/14/2022
Are you familiar with our sister publication, Youth Today?
For more than 35 years, Youth Today has offered youth service professionals, policymakers, advocates and funders in youth services the latest news, information, grants, reports, professional development and research in the youth services field.
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12/14/2022
Utah offers “free college for all” to juveniles behind bars
“Every long-term youth facility should be rehabilitative in nature. That can’t happen if a facility only offers minimal opportunities,” said David Domenici of Break Free Education. https://bit.ly/UtahCollegeEd
Along with New Jersey and California, Utah is among a growing number of states that are implementing postsecondary programming for incarcerated youth. Utah’s Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth program even goes beyond what’s offered to incarcerated adults in Utah: Most adults in Utah prison...
12/13/2022
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12/12/2022
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12/09/2022
Supported by lawmakers, opposed by reformers, youth s*x offender registries have a long history
Researchers have largely determined that putting minors on registries does not enhance community safety and reflects a miscarriage of that runs afoul of the juvenile justice system’s promise to help rehabilitate youth. https://bit.ly/RegistryYouth
Originally, registries were conceived as a way to inform communities about convicted s*xual predators living in their neighborhoods. But researchers, conducting several different studies over the years, have largely determined that putting minors on registries does not enhance community safety and r...
12/07/2022
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12/07/2022
If you’ve been affected by gun violence or are someone with expertise in the field, we want to hear from you!
Share your insights, research, policy proposals, innovative solutions and on-the-ground perspectives about the gun violence epidemic in a guest essay for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.
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12/06/2022
Connecticut’s turnaround of troubled juvenile system sets a standard, says justice-equity organization
Connecticut has turned its troubled juvenile facilities into what federal officials have cited as exemplary national models. Staffing is up dramatically because directors talked to employees about their worries and took steps to solve them. https://bit.ly/CTJuvJustice
Times were tough at the Hartford Juvenile Detention Center in 2016. Layoffs had slashed the staff of the Connecticut facility by more than one-third, and the remaining employees were taking out their stress on the children detained at the center as they awaited trial. Disagreements between employees...
12/06/2022
Help JJIE continue to bridge the gaps in legacy media. If JJIE receives donations from 100 or more new donors (no matter the donation size), NewsMatch will award JJIE an additional $1,000 to continue its work. https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
12/01/2022
Our publisher, The Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University, is excited to introduce its new executive editor, Molly Bloom. Bloom has been a part of the Center’s editorial team since early 2022. We look forward to Bloom taking on this new role.
An award-winning journalist, Bloom previously worked as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she covered Atlanta Public Schools in the aftermath of one of the nation’s biggest cheating scandals.
Bloom has also worked for NPR member stations, the Austin American-Statesman, the Newark Star-Ledger and other outlets. Join us in welcoming Molly Bloom!
11/29/2022
Today, on Giving Tuesday, if JJIE receives donations from 100 or more new donors (no matter the donation size), NewsMatch will award JJIE an additional $1,000 to continue its work. Help us continue our mission: https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
11/29/2022
More students and teachers are being trained to triage gunshot victims
During those first crucial moments after a catastrophic accident or calculated gun violence, the reaction of nearby individuals can mean the difference between life and death for a person with a severe bleeding wound or injury. https://bit.ly/TriageGunshots
After 17 students and teachers were shot dead at a Florida school 23 miles away from her hometown, Ashley Freeland was afraid to step back inside her own classrooms. “I was terrified to go to school the next day,” Freeland said, of that 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Park...
11/29/2022
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11/28/2022
Listening for gunshot victims’ ‘audible blood,’ then stopping its flow
Emergency wound management such as that taught through the American College of Surgeons’ Stop the Bleed program, its proponents say, offers gun-injured individuals a better shot at survival. https://bit.ly/GunshotVic
Emergency wound management such as that taught through the American College of Surgeons’ Stop the Bleed program, its proponents say, offers gun-injured individuals a better shot at survival.
11/28/2022
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11/24/2022
We’re thankful for readers like you! 🦃 The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange team wishes you a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday season. Thank you for your continued support.
11/22/2022
Happy Thanksgiving! You can celebrate this season of giving by donating to our annual fundraising campaign, NewsMatch. Now through Dec. 31 your donation will be triple-matched by a generous group of funders, helping us continue this critical work in 2023 and beyond. https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
11/21/2022
You can help JJIE unlock a bonus gift during our annual gift-matching campaign, NewsMatch. If JJIE receives donations from 100 or more new donors (no matter the donation size), NewsMatch will award JJIE an additional $1,000 to continue its work. Donate today: https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
11/17/2022
A Wisconsin district debates the effects of terminating school police
At schools with school resource officers, Black students are expelled from school at higher rates than at schools without officers, according to a 2017 analysis in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. https://bit.ly/WisconsinSROs
Brawls in school hallways and parking lots. Blood splattered on lockers. 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 broken up by dozens of police...
11/17/2022
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11/16/2022
As part of NewsMatch, The Loud Hound Foundation will match up to $15,000 in donations to JJIE during the NewsMatch 2022 campaign. Eligible donations received from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31 will be matched dollar for dollar. Donate today: https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
11/15/2022
Are you familiar with our sister publication, Youth Today?
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11/15/2022
Violence, restraints, isolation increase at Wyoming Boys’ School
Via Buffalo Bulletin: A recent investigation revealed that violence, reliance on physical restraints and the use of solitary confinement have all become increasingly common in recent years at the Wyoming Boys’ School — the state-run facility that houses delinquent 12- to 21-year-old boys. https://bit.ly/WyomingJuvJustice
WORLAND —Afternoon, Dec. 10, 2021: A 16-year-old boy flips a desk at a Wyoming Boys’ School staff member.
11/14/2022
You can help JJIE unlock a bonus gift during our annual gift-matching campaign, NewsMatch. If JJIE receives donations from 100 or more new donors (no matter the donation size), NewsMatch will award JJIE an additional $1,000 to continue its work. Donate today: https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
11/10/2022
Bill would smooth way toward juvenile record expungements
Via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Pennsylvania General Assembly has passed criminal justice reforms meant to make it easier for people to reenter society after serving time in prison. Now, lawmakers are considering similar reforms for juvenile offenders. https://bit.ly/3UkczGt
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania General Assembly has passed criminal justice reforms meant to make it easier for people to reenter society after...
11/10/2022
Our sister publication, Youth Today, published a youth and climate change series about how a generation is adapting to dramatic shifts in our climate while fighting for their future. Donate to NewsMatch today to make way for more special reporting projects: https://bit.ly/CSJNewsMatch2022
11/09/2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson issues her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice -- a dissent | CNN Politics
Via CNN: Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice, said she would have sided with an inmate who argued that Ohio failed to disclose his juvenile records that indicated he had a “moderate range” of intellectual disability. https://cnn.it/3fNEVtz
Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice, said she would have sided with an inmate who argued that Ohio suppressed evidence that might have helped him at trial.
11/08/2022
Report: Black youth in Mass. four times more likely to be physically arrested for an alleged offense compared to white peers
Via Boston.com: Black youth in Massachusetts are over four times more likely to be physically arrested by police, versus receiving a court summons for an alleged offense, compared to their white peers, according to a recent report. https://bit.ly/BostonYouthDisparities
Latino youth, meanwhile, were almost three times more likely to be physically arrested compared to white youth.
11/04/2022
The Oct. 2022 Targeting Gun Violence Newsletter has just been released! Stay up to date with our most recent stories on gun violence across the nation by signing up to receive the newsletter today.
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11/03/2022
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11/03/2022
Alabaman is appealing 55-year sentence for participating in a burglary ending in teen friend’s death by police
LaKeith Smith, under Alabama’s felony murder law allowing prosecutors to charge a person considered an accomplice to a crime, was faulted for his friend’s death. No evidence that the teen fired or possessed a gun was presented during the trial. https://bit.ly/AlabamaAppeal
During the three years that Brontina Smith’s son spent in Alabama’s Elmore County Jail awaiting trial, he packed about 50 pounds onto what had been a 135-pound frame. “So, now, it’s not letting the jury see that they’re dealing with a child,” said the mother of LaKeith Smith, who was 15 ...
11/01/2022
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Good afternoon! My name is amy jozan and I am a doctoral student doing research in lengthy juvenile incarceration to understand the experience and recommend alternative rehabilitation programming, sanctioning policy, and future research. Incarceration can be harmful and counter productive, but putting youth in jails....that is reprehensible.
The criteria are that I need to speak with participants 18-23 years old with a history of 1 or more years incarceration (total or in one duration) while under 18.
This is a extremely specific boundary and was wondering if anyone had direction or recommendations for networking with this population? Please reach out if you or someone you know meets this criteria and are willing to interview (everything is confidential). Please help if you feel inclined!
The criteria are that I need to speak with participants 18-23 years old with a history of 1 or more years incarceration (total or in one duration) while under 18.
This is a extremely specific boundary and was wondering if anyone had direction or recommendations for networking with this population? Please reach out if you or someone you know meets this criteria and are willing to interview (everything is confidential). Please help if you feel inclined!
Please write to Chaz Bunch. Ohio First Juvenile Lifer. Wrongfully convicted by association, then railroaded by the Mahoning county Court and Prosecutor at the age of 16. He had no proper legal representation nor an legal ad litem to advocate for him during trial. This is a travesty!
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In the cause of speaking for others, but
What is the motivation for this act
I mean what do they gain to be more exact
I mean, they speak for some, but who will speak for all
Whose Life is more valuable....that's what I must ask yall
At the moment of conception, who will we cherish
And who will receive our condolences when they perish
Some never got to taste breath, many never saw the light of day
And if they had a chance, I imagine this is what they'd say
I never got my chance to lie, I never got my chance to tell the truth
I never got to be the elderly, I never got to be the youth
I never got to Love, I never got to hate
I never had to rush, I never had to wait
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I didn't get to win or lose, I didn't even get to try
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I never had to leave, I never got to stay
I never had my chance to listen, I never had my chance to tell
I never got to buy, I never got to sell
I never got to kill, I never got to save
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I was never your worst enemy, I was never you closest friend
I never forgot to say I Love you or to ask how have you been
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"The Aborted"
by: Eric L. Boddie
There are so many people who will stand up
In the cause of speaking for others, but
What is the motivation for this act
I mean what do they gain to be more exact
I mean, they speak for some, but who will speak for all
Whose Life is more valuable....that's what I must ask yall
At the moment of conception, who will we cherish
And who will receive our condolences when they perish
Some never got to taste breath, many never saw the light of day
And if they had a chance, I imagine this is what they'd say
I never got my chance to lie, I never got my chance to tell the truth
I never got to be the elderly, I never got to be the youth
I never got to Love, I never got to hate
I never had to rush, I never had to wait
I never got to laugh, I never got to cry
I didn't get to win or lose, I didn't even get to try
I have never seen the sun, I have never seen the moon
I never felt a midnight, I never touched a noon
I never got to steal, I never got to earn
I never got to teach, I never got to learn
I didn't get to work, I didn't get to play
I never had to leave, I never got to stay
I never had my chance to listen, I never had my chance to tell
I never got to buy, I never got to sell
I never got to kill, I never got to save
I never had my chance to be bad, I never had my chance to behave
I was never your worst enemy, I was never you closest friend
I never forgot to say I Love you or to ask how have you been
But it's only Life right....I mean, you got your chance to record it
But we will never get ours....we are the aborted
"The Aborted"
by: Eric L. Boddie
jovenes sean solidarios , lean para q ayuden a sus amigos a no participar en problemas que pueden aislarlos de la vida libre y hasta morir en la carcel.La mayoria de los jovenes no saben defenderse y por eso siempre los condenan, la mayoria de presos son de largos anos, cuando eran inespectos jovencitos.
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Instead of just sending out police, we should empower & enable dispatchers: Dispatch Triage - the practice of allowing 911 dispatchers to triage incoming calls and divert calls, when possible, to alternative services (e.g. mental health crisis workers). Diverting calls away from police before the call leaves the 911 center is a smart "upstream" reform! Abilene does it by getting a Mental Health Professional on conference line to assist a 911 Dispatcher. Providing the Right Service at the Right Place and at the Right Time should be the goal. This saves money and improves service (police by default is not the best service). __The Abilene version of dispatch triage seems brilliant compared to what others do (i.e. checklist). [https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2193684657364152&id=911170532282244&__tn__=-R](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2193684657364152&id=911170532282244)
I am looking for someone who can help with any ideas or relevant information. I have a loved one in Florida who was recently released after serving 25 years, the prosecutor is appealing the judges decision and wants to put him back in prison, how can we help his lawyer fight this?? He is in a Faith based program for re entry right now that helps offenders get jobs and get rehabilitated he is doing so incredibly well and I just hate to see an
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This petition is being started to support the Liberation of Chaz Bunch, one of Ohio's first Juvenile Lifers, sentenced to death by incarceration at the age of 16. Life without the Possibility of Parole, at the age of 16... Please allow that to sink in. Let's think for a minute; how many of us at the age of 25, 30, 40 and so on, are making the same decisions at these ages, as we did as a teen? It has been proven by professionals and psychologists that the brain development, at this stage, does not have the capacity to reason out consequences to the depth that society can judge them as "adults". All the way until 25, the brain has not reached its full capacity to critically think consequentially, especially when you factor in upbringing, lack of education & opportunities, medications and addictions and overall communal and society influences, that impact their everyday lives. As someone who has worked with young people for more than 25 years,, I have seen the raw, extenuating circumstances that contribute to the conditions our youth are being raised in. Our youth deal with way information than we did one and two generations ago. What have we learned that we should be teaching them? And why are so many of us saying "That ain't MY problem!", when it is...? It's all of our problem! We have failed, with the biggest of F's! We allowed others to speak on our behalf. We failed to find the courage to uplift our youth to do and be better than us. We allowed the public school system to establish the "school to prison pipeline" on our watch. And because we were more concerned with image, than substance, we must now swallow the bitter pill of reality and demand better, from ourselves, from our neighbors and from our commUNITY! I don't want to hear "That ain't my problem"! It IS your problem because the next person to get the phone call or the knock at the door, may just be you! Then what will you do? We need one another RIGHT NOW! Please sign, share and support this Petition. Thanks for your support. Love, Queen Tahiyrah https://www.change.org/p/ohio-state-attorney-general-freechazbunch-ohio-juvenile-lifer-set-for-retrial-in-2018
MY PLEA FOR JUSTICE BY CHAZ BUNCH
On August 21, 2001 I was supposedly involved as a "conspiring perpetrator" of an aggravated robbery, kidnapping and r**e of a 21 year old female. At the young age of 16, I hardly could be considered of the state of mind to devise, plan, and implement such an act, involving multiple participants beyond my age, whereby I was assigned the mastermind. In light of nothing, but circumstantial evidence, all constructed by the actual admitted perpetrators of this crime the State of Ohio, in the county of Mahoning pursued a course of prosecution that resulted in the imposing of a sentence that is Cruel and Unusual, to say the least.
I received a horrific prison sentence of 89 years . At the age of sixteen, I could not comprehend the totality this decision carried considering I was illiterate at the time. The State key witness came forward a year after the crime, lied to save his self from a life sentence, with a manufactured story created by the prosecution alleging the reason he didn’t come forward sooner because I had imitated him by stating that I had killed many times over and had gotten away with the murders each time. Yet, due to ‘no evidence’ to support my involvement in this crime, the State of Ohio asserted before the open court in the presence of the jury, that he feared if he came forward and I got away with this crime I would come kill his entire family. Notwithstanding the prejudice this statement produced at my trial, whereby the trial court refused to grant a mistrial. How could the State’s prosecuting attorney or any other court official determine I was so diabolical at age 16, whereas I could present the potential of a trail of bodies in my early past to such an extent. This in itself is preposterous. Yet, very entertaining for a Hollywood screenplay.
My initial intention of this site is to alert the media and the public of my complaint to include the egregious misconduct of the detectives’ investigation, the prosecutor, and my counsel behind the scene cooperation that compromised the integrity of my entire trial proceedings.
MY PLEA FOR JUSTICE BY CHAZ BUNCH
On August 21, 2001 I was supposedly involved as a "conspiring perpetrator" of an aggravated robbery, kidnapping and r**e of a 21 year old female. At the young age of 16, I hardly could be considered of the state of mind to devise, plan, and implement such an act, involving multiple participants beyond my age, whereby I was assigned the mastermind. In light of nothing, but circumstantial evidence, all constructed by the actual admitted perpetrators of this crime the State of Ohio, in the county of Mahoning pursued a course of prosecution that resulted in the imposing of a sentence that is Cruel and Unusual, to say the least.
I received a horrific prison sentence of 89 years . At the age of sixteen, I could not comprehend the totality this decision carried considering I was illiterate at the time. The State key witness came forward a year after the crime, lied to save his self from a life sentence, with a manufactured story created by the prosecution alleging the reason he didn’t come forward sooner because I had imitated him by stating that I had killed many times over and had gotten away with the murders each time. Yet, due to ‘no evidence’ to support my involvement in this crime, the State of Ohio asserted before the open court in the presence of the jury, that he feared if he came forward and I got away with this crime I would come kill his entire family. Notwithstanding the prejudice this statement produced at my trial, whereby the trial court refused to grant a mistrial. How could the State’s prosecuting attorney or any other court official determine I was so diabolical at age 16, whereas I could present the potential of a trail of bodies in my early past to such an extent. This in itself is preposterous. Yet, very entertaining for a Hollywood screenplay.
My initial intention of this site is to alert the media and the public of my complaint to include the egregious misconduct of the detectives’ investigation, the prosecutor, and my counsel behind the scene cooperation that compromised the integrity of my entire trial proceedings.