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Nonprofit, nonpartisan law firm advocating nationally for rights, dignity, equity and opportunity for youth in the child welfare and justice systems. Learn more at www.jlc.org and linktr.ee/juvenilelawcenter

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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Big thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to @whyy.org for Debtors' Prison for Kids: Ending Economic Injustice for Children!
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rather than spending hundreds of thousands per year to lock up a child, lawmakers could invest in community programs and resources. Less than 5% of what it costs to lock up a child per year could fund restorative justice, mentoring, diversion, or family/trauma therapy.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are so proud of our co-founder Marsha Levick, who has just been named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania by Governor Josh Shapiro. This designation honors extraordinary women for their outstanding service and contributions to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You can still register for this! Join us at 5pm tonight!
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our team is growing! Join us in welcoming new board members Shaena Fazal, Jordan Jean, and Tania Stewart, as well as our new 2026-2028 Sol & Helen Zubrow Fellow in Children's Law Jennifer Kim. Learn more about them: jlc.org/news/juvenil...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our Chief Legal Officer Jessica Feierman will be joined by Dequan Jackson, professional football player and advocate who experienced these fees firsthand. The event is free with a reception to follow the panel.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're now accepting applications for the 2027-2029 Sol & Helen Zubrow Fellowship in Children's Law. Applications are due Fri, Jan 8, 2027. If you're passionate about children's rights and have graduated from law school within the past two years, consider applying! Learn more: jlc.org/Zubrow-Fello...
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Zubrow Fellowship | Juvenile Law Center
The Sol & Helen Zubrow Fellowship in Children's Law is a two-year, non-project-based fellowship in children’s law. Recent law school graduates with a demonstrated commitment to Juvenile Law Center’s m...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October is Youth Justice Action Month, and we are sounding the alarm on locking up children. It costs a whopping average of $214,620 per year (roughly $588 per day) to lock up a single child in a youth prison. www.aecf.org/resources/st...
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Sticker Shock 2020
This brief explores the economic toll of youth confinement and its long-term harm to young people’s well-being. Read more about the lasting impact.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A great night out celebrating our Education Law Center colleagues at their annual event! We fight side by side for children’s rights. ELC champions a fundamental right to education for Pennsylvania children each and every day. Thanks for all you do, ELC!
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are one week out! Sign up today.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Victory: The PA House just passed Rep. Delozier and Rep. Krajewski's bill to protect benefits for children in foster care! Now on to the PA Senate - let's get this done. Call your state senator and ask them to move the bill forward.  www.pahousegop.com/News/38840/L...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us Oct 17 at Khyber! In honor of Youth Justice Action Month, Philly bands Universal Girlfriend, Sun Within, and At Night are playing a benefit concert for us. If you like loud music and youth rights, this is for you. $20/21+. 7:30pm doors/8pm music. www.eventbrite.com/e/universal-...
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Universal Girlfriend / Sun Within / At Night: Benefit for the JLC
Universal Girlfriend, Sun Within & At Night : A Benefit for the Juvenile Law Center
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re in great company in FeedSpot’s list of Top 40 Criminal Justice Blogs. bloggers.feedspot.com/criminal_jus...
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40 Best Criminal Justice Blogs to Follow in 2026
FeedSpot brings you the best list of Criminal Justice blogs, ranked by relevance, online following, and freshness to keep you connected with the latest voices
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join us at WHYY on Oct 7 for Debtors’ Prison for Kids: Ending Economic Injustice for Children. This discussion, moderated by Cherri Gregg, explores our decade of advocacy to end unjust fees and fines against children and families in the juvenile legal system. support.whyy.org/page/102701/...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did you know that families can be charged for the incarceration of their children in many states? Did you know some kids only have the chance at a diversion program, keeping them out of prison, if they can pay for it?
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We fight to end juvenile fees and fines nationwide. When a young person is required to pay fees, they are more likely to end up back in juvenile or criminal court. They also don’t make financial sense – jurisdictions can spend more money collecting fees and fines than what they collect from youth
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today’s juvenile legal system reflects a historical pattern of abuse and trauma on children. A new study from our colleagues at Georgetown University's Center for Youth Justice Forgotten Children Initiative reveals that there are at least 40 burial
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Most kids don’t understand Miranda warnings. A recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision, K.R.C., recognizes this. Senior Attorney Kate Burdick co-authored a piece in Wisconsin Lawyer arguing that while the decision was a step in the right direction, it doesn’t go far enough.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ten years ago, Juvenile Law Center published Debtors’ Prison for Kids – a groundbreaking report uncovering the unjust system of charging youth and families fees and fines for a child’s court case, incarceration, diversion and more.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our youth fellows and staff are so glad to be at Georgetown University Center for Youth Justice's Janet Reno Forum with fellow advocates.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Still time to sign up for tomorrow's event!
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're six days out from our Youth Justice Book Club! Join us online on Thursday, Sept. 10th at 7pm ET to hear Tananarive Due discuss her groundbreaking book The Reformatory with our own staff and board. Register today: give.jlc.org/event/youth-...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yesterday, Youth Today published an interview with Brit Christopher, our Stoneleigh Youth Advocacy Fellow, on her work on the No Kids in Prison magazine.
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Q&A: Brit Christopher and Gabriel Arika on why youth prisons don't work — and how their youth-led magazine is building a movement | Youth Today
The No Kids in Prison magazine is a project of Youth First Justice Collaborative (YFJCo), a national organization dedicated to ending youth incarceration in the U.S. by fueling the movement of campaig...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There is still time to register for our Youth Justice Book Club! Juvenile Law Center will be joined by award-winning author Tananarive Due to discuss her book, The Reformatory. give.jlc.org/event/youth-...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Between 2005-2016, the United States Supreme Court issued four groundbreaking decisions (Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Montgomery v. Louisiana) drastically altering sentencing practices for youth and confirming that youth are developmentally different from adults.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Our Youth Justice Book Club is back! Join us Sept. 10th at 7pm ET / 4 pm PT for a virtual conversation with Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Advocates are increasingly concerned about harm connected to GPS monitoring of children. Our CEO recently moderated a panel on this topic for the American Bar Association. Check out this article from our summer legal intern Cierra De La Garza to learn more: www.americanbar.org/groups/litig...
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Five Key Takeaways from “Tracking Youth: Balancing Privacy and the Expanded Use of GPS Monitoring”
Practitioners and advocates are questioning GPS ankle monitors’ implications on the lives and overall well-being of young people.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The United States is one of only very few countries in the world to condemn children to die in prison through life without parole and other extreme sentences. These sentences perpetuate racist policies of mass incarceration as Black and Brown youth disproportionately face these sentences.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Victory! We joined forces with advocates to support James Gregory Eads, a Michigan man who was sentenced to 50 to 75 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 16 years old. In our amicus brief, we argued that
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Historic Win: Michigan Supreme Court Stops People Convicted as Kids from Dying in Prison - ACLU of Michigan
The ACLU of Michigan, the ACLU, Juvenile Law Center, and civil rights attorney Deborah LaBelle applaud the Michigan Supreme Court’s decision that subjecting young people to excessively long prison sen...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We've been so fortunate to have excellent summer interns! Meet our legal interns Caroline, Cierra and Ryan and our undergraduate interns Ini, Kausar and Flematu. We are eager to see where their careers take them.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Today our staff met with Simon Melin, a Swedish reporter covering the country’s recent shift in laws that seek to charge more children criminally and expose them to harsher punishments and confinement.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
While this story covers a recent lawsuit alleging sexual and physical abuse and a culture of negligence in Nevada, we know from our 50 years of experience that this is a feature and not a bug.
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Clark County Juvenile Justice Services director placed on leave
Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services officials confirmed that Director John Munoz has been placed on leave in the midst of an investigation.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Last month, Mississippi lawmakers introduced legislation to require children charged with an offense involving a firearm or gun possession to be automatically tried in the adult criminal court. This wrongheaded response seeks to criminalize children — primarily Black and Brown children —
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We believe that children have a right to be in court for their own dependency hearings. That’s why we filed an amicus brief this month supporting a child’s right to be a part of the hearings determining whether she would be allowed to stay with a family member or be removed from her home.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In 2007, we received a frantic call from an alarmed parent which led us to investigate irregularities in Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County juvenile court. We discovered that hundreds of children routinely appeared before Judge Mark Ciavarella without counsel in the largest judicial scandal in American
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The U.S. Constitution guarantees youth a right to counsel in delinquency proceeding in the juvenile justice system. There is no equivalent right to counsel in dependency hearings (in the child welfare system),
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Congratulations to Marsha Levick for her appointment as the inaugural Robert G. Schwartz Visiting Fellow through Stoneleigh Foundation (named in honor of our co-founder Bob Schwartz). We cannot wait to see the excellent work she creates in this role! stoneleighfoundation.org/fellow/marsh...
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Marsha Levick, Esq. - Stoneleigh Foundation
Marsha Levick will serve as the Stoneleigh Foundation’s inaugural Robert G. Schwartz Visiting Fellow. In this role, she will develop a new blueprint for a…
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Reforming juvenile justice is a real Wyoming emergency wyofile.com/reforming-ju...
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Reforming juvenile justice is a real Wyoming emergency - WyoFile
Will photo of hooded Boys’ School resident in restraint chair convince lawmakers to protect troubled youth, columnist Kerry Drake asks.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We are happy to celebrate 20 years of our phenomenal Director of Development Rosie McNamara-Jones at Juvenile Law Center! Rosie helps people connect to the heart of our work in the fight for young people’s futures.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Happy anniversary, Miller decision! The fight to treat kids and kids, out of prisons and in their homes and communities remains. Throwback to a blog on the topic of Miller: jlc.org/news/remembe...
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Remembering Miller, Fighting Back | Juvenile Law Center
Ten years ago, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Miller v. Alabama. The Court held that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children 17 or younger convicted of homicide were un...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
When children are pulled into youth prisons, they are stolen from their families. Children need to remain in their homes and communities; services provided in the community are more effective and more cost-efficient than those provided in institutions.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Great news out of Harrisburg! This bill helps provide a pathway to families for the restoration of terminated parental rights. We know the deep harm the family regulation system causes when it tears families apart. www.pahouse.com/InTheNews/Ne...
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House approves legislation to establish processes for reinstating parental rights, protect the rights of incarcerated parents
HARRISBURG, June 22 – Today, the House voted with strong bipartisan support to pass two bills introduced by state Rep. Rick Krajewski, D-Phila., that would establish a legal petition process to reinst...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Curfews for children and tough-on-crime approaches don't make communities safer. What does work? Investment in communities. Programming. Access to supportive, caring adults.
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D.C. Mayor Candidates Are Fixating on Teen Hangouts — and Turning the Cops on Them
Kenyan McDuffie says D.C. needs teen curfews. Janeese Lewis George argues that’s playing into the Trump administration’s hand.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Juvenile Law Center staff and our Stoneleigh Youth Advocacy Fellows were in Harrisburg yesterday advocating for juvenile legal system reform including SB1266, a bipartisan bill ending fees and fines in the juvenile legal system.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Harsh responses to youth crime do not work. “These tough on crime, really extreme sentencing schema don’t really work, and they only end up incarcerating more youth and perpetuating racial disparities.” - Malik Pickett, Senior Attorney. penncapital-star.com/2026/06/09/r...
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Critics warn of years in prison for young adults under carjacking bill before Congress • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
People younger than 25 make up most of the carjackers, causing advocates to argue that a lower threshold for proving carjackings could result in many young adults, especially Black men, spending decad...
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
June is Stolen Children’s Month. We join partners nationwide in calling for an end to state-sponsored stealing of children, whether through the juvenile legal system, the family policing system, or immigration detention.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Great night out yesterday with our staff and friends to see the Phillies soar to victory!
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This month, we join our colleagues working to abolish family policing in declaring June 2026 the second annual Stolen Children’s Month. Ashley Albert declared the first Stolen Children’s Month last year.
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We’re celebrating Jessica Feierman’s 20 years at Juvenile Law Center today! Our Chief Legal Officer brings vision, passion and empathy to her fight for youth rights. From her legal acumen to her community focus, she is a stellar and unique advocate for children. Thanks for all your work, Jessica!
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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social will be moderating this panel today. Join if you are interested! Register in advance for this webinar: americanbar.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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