Three people who were teens when they were charged with shooting pellet guns in Hillcrest in September 2024 completed a court-mandated restorative justice program that lowered their felony charge to ...

New guidelines aim to hold children accountable with restorative practices instead of sending them to court for misdemeanor offenses.

Members of the Virginia General Assembly are considering a bill that would encourage schools to take a new approach to discipline.

This year in Annapolis, we have the chance to fix this and finally treat kids as kids. Children make mistakes because they are cognitively different from adults. I say all this from firsthand ...

Milwaukee County unveiled a new 32-bed youth detention center designed to keep juveniles closer to families and provide restorative treatment programs ...

Milwaukee County has put the finishing touches on a multi-million dollar youth facility at the Vel R. Phillips Youth and Family Justice Center.

Does your community care about children? This deceptively simple question carries profound moral, social, and civic weight. Across the United States, children are too often treated not as developing ...

Restorative justice is rooted in an empathetic, comprehensive and more solution-based approach to addressing criminal behavior.

HERE Arts Center will present the World Premiere of Off the Record: Acts of Restorative Justice, written and performed by James Scruggs in collaboration with Thomas Giovanni, at the HERE Mainstage, ...

The Center for Youth Justice (CYJ) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy launched the Forgotten Children Initiative, an organization founded to honor deceased incarcerated youth ...

Two recent cases involving Tennessee children with autism illustrate the harsh, complex realities they face in the juvenile justice system. Parents, advocates and experts weighed in on what it's like ...