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The U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into Kentucky’s juvenile justice system comes at a critical moment. The system's new commissioner has warned legislators that several new tough ...
Jamiahia Kennedy and Willow Neal sued the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green, citing violations of their civil rights.
Kentucky’s troubled juvenile detention centers don’t give tours. Their top officials usually won’t give interviews. To learn what goes on inside these buildings, where the U.S. Justice ...
The U.S. Supreme Court held, in the case of In re Gault (1967), [13] [14] that children accused in a juvenile delinquency proceeding have the rights to due process, counsel, and against self-incrimination, essentially the Miranda rights.
McKeiver v. Pennsylvania, 403 U.S. 528 (1971), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court.The Court held that juveniles in juvenile criminal proceedings were not entitled to a jury trial by the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendments. [1]
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 ...
The Department of Juvenile Justice has tried to bully the women by filing motions in state court to unseal their juvenile court records, arguing that “the general public has an interest in ...
Argument: Oral argument: Case history; Prior: Application of Gault; 99 Ariz. 181 (1965), Supreme Court of Arizona, Rehearing denied Holding; Juveniles tried for crimes in delinquency proceedings should have the right of due process protected by the Fifth Amendment, including the right to confront witnesses and the right to counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment.