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Reagan Daly

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U.S. Justice Department sues Meridian, MS, for running a school-to-prison pipeline

In August, I commented here about the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division putting school officials in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and the city of Meridian on notice that they were “repeatedly and routinely” violating the Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendment rights of schoolchildren. At the time, Justice Department officials sent a findin ...

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Reagan Daly

October 25, 2012

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An intriguing look at juvenile justice in DC

The Urban Institute’s District of Columbia Crime Policy Institute recently released a report highlighting trends in youth placed in the custody of the DC Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), the District’s cabinet-level juvenile justice agency, between 2006 and 2011. The goal of the report was to better understand how and why the num ...

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Reagan Daly

October 12, 2012

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How did bad behavior in school become a crime?

On August 10, the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sent a letter of finding to Mississippi’s governor and attorney general, as well as to Lauderale County officials and to the mayor of the city of Meridian, alleging—based on an eight-month investigation—that Meridian is operating a school-to-prison pipeline that incarcerates students ...

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Reagan Daly

August 22, 2012

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Making kids feel less than zero

Last week, two publications highlighting the harmful effects of zero-tolerance policies that have become increasingly prevalent in schools across the country over the past decade got a lot of media attention. Breaking Schools’ Rules, issued by the Council of State Government’s (CSG’s) Justice Center, presents findings from a longitudinal study of ...

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Reagan Daly
Tarika Daftary-Kapur

July 26, 2011

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Capital Change

A Process Evaluation of Washington DC's Secure Juvenile Placement Reform

A growing body of research has persuaded most experts and many practitioners that punitive responses to juvenile offenders—particularly those placed in secure facilities—yield poor results for the youth involved and for public safety. Informed by this consensus, in 2005 officials in Washington, DC’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS ...

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Reagan Daly

January 25, 2011

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From the Show Me State, a juvenile justice reform model worth a close look

Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, recently blogged on theHuffington Post advocating nationwide adoption of the Missouri Model, a treatment-oriented approach to serving youth in placement that has received a great deal of attention—both positive and negative—in recent years Under this model, which emphasizes skill dev ...

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Reagan Daly

April 12, 2010

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Treatment and Reentry Practices for Sex Offenders

An Overview of States

This report provides an overview and analysis of existing treatment and reentry practices for sex offenders who are involved with the criminal justice system.

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