http://www.burnsinstitute.org/ http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=199 <div class="text blurb">This position will primarily support 5 staff members. The Administrative Assistant will report directly to the Senior Assistant for Administration and be responsible for providing impeccable administrative support to both internal and offsite staff. Among other responsibilities, he or she will:</div> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=199 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=198 <div class="text blurb">In the basement of a church near the Capitol, a congregation of juvenile justice advocates, adult and adolescent, geared up to go ask legislators to support the closings and consolidations of four juvenile placement facilities, which are proposed in the 2010-2011 Executive Budget.</div> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=198 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=197 <div class="text blurb">A recent story broadcast on Omaha television highlighting the heartbreaking death of a juvenile justice system-involved 15-year-old illustrates the complexities of the reform needed within system.</div> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=197 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=196 <div class="text blurb">Public education protests should send the message that students, parents, teachers and other education staff are fed up with tuition fee increases while services decrease. Instead, news coverage focused heavily on the havoc created by those who broke from the larger protests yesterday across California.</div> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=196 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=195 <div class="text blurb">Is it time for the United States to haul in its law-and-order approach to adolescent misbehavior? Time for principals to stop sending students to court for run-of-the-mill fist-fights or mouthing off? For police to stop dragging kids to court over status offenses and disorderly conduct? For juvenile courts to stop imposing probation on youth wholesale, and for juvenile corrections systems to reduce their stubborn reliance on training schools? </div> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=195 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=194 <div class="text blurb">The San Francisco-based W. Haywood Burns Institute, using statistics gathered by the federal government, released an interactive map Wednesday showing the youth incarceration rates in all 50 states. </div> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=194 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=193 <div class="text blurb">A recent incident in San Francisco demonstrates a serious lapse in our juvenile justice system and the way that officials within it overreact to youth misbehavior.</div> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=193 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=191 <div class="text blurb">The San Francisco-based national nonprofit W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) is announcing the availability of the first-ever “Racial and Ethnic Disparities Juvenile Justice Data Map” on its website, http://www.burnsinstitute.org. Laura John Ridolfi, BI Law and Policy Analyst, will hold a media conference call tomorrow to explain how to utilize the State Data Map to find juvenile justice information. </div> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=191 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=190 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=190 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=189 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=189 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=188 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=188 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=187 <div class="text blurb">Three decades ago, the federal government signed into law an act that provided rights and protections to juveniles in detention. Today, the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act (JJDPA) is overdue for reauthorization. S. 678 must be passed to continue to:</div> http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=187 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=186 <div class="text blurb">This new legislation creates a Class A misdemeanor penalty for what it dubs “criminal street gang initiation.” Those who are charged would face as much as a year in jail if convicted of initiating a person and if the initiation created a risk of “physical injury.” So what’s the problem with this bill? The New York Police Department and prosecution don’t have to prove with witness testimony that the injury took place during initiation.</div> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=186 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=185 <div class="text blurb">It is not often that we are heartened by the moves of our statewide justice system. But, last week the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ) announced that a center for the developmentally disabled would be converted in 2011 to a moderate-security juvenile facility. It is the first time that the state of Louisiana is looking to design small therapeutic facilities that are home-like and lack razor wire and cells, a rarity in Missouri. </div> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=185 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=184 <div class="text blurb">There was no profanity, no hate. Just the words, “I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 ” scrawled on the classroom desk with a green marker. Alexa Gonzalez, an outgoing 12-year-old who likes to dance and draw, expected a lecture or maybe detention for her doodles earlier this month. Instead, the principal of the Junior High School in Forest Hills, New York, called police, and the seventh-grader was taken across the street to the police precinct. Alexa’s hands were cuffed behind her back, and tears gushed as she was escorted from school in front of teachers and — the worst audience of all for a preadolescent girl — her classmates. </div> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 http://www.burnsinstitute.org/article.php?id=184