Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Body slams, pepper spray and other recent abuses inside KY juvenile detention centers. John Cheves. July 22, 2024 at 4:45 AM. Just months into his new job, Kentucky’s juvenile justice ...
Between 2008 and 2022, Florida charged around 20,500 kids in adult court. Three out of four of the children came from minority communities.
Before California eliminated juvenile fees in 2017, Santa Clara County spent $450,000 to collect just $400,000 in fees in fiscal year 2014-15, according to a March 2017 report from the University ...
Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that juvenile offenders cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses. [1][2] In June 2012, in the related Miller v. Alabama, the Court ruled that mandatory sentences for life without parole for juvenile ...
Juvenile court, also known as young offender's court or children's court, is a tribunal having special authority to pass judgements for crimes committed by children who have not attained the age of majority. In most modern legal systems, children who commit a crime are treated differently from legal adults who have committed the same offense.
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. [ 1 ] The 5–4 decision overruled Stanford v. Kentucky, in which the court had upheld execution of offenders at ...
Kansas City Star, "Fewer details made public in Chiefs rally shooting charges than in past juvenile cases," Feb. 20, 2024 NPR, " Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all charges in the trial over ...
A few infamous cases have been used by opposition groups, such as Amnesty International, to further their case against the policy. The Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice released a story in 2003 about a 13-year-old girl in Tuscaloosa, Alabama arrested and detained for 5 weeks for possession of what was thought to be marijuana , but turned ...