MICHIGAN (WNEM) - Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist signed bipartisan legislation which is aimed at transforming Michigan’s juvenile justice system and investing in diversion and re-entry services to set up ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - School fights, especially among older kids, are considered serious and often result in arrests. However, not all these cases end up in court, thanks to a unique program run by ...

A $16 million effort by King County to send most juvenile criminal cases to community-based diversion programs, rather than the court system, is struggling to meet its goals, a county report shows.

After a recent report from the Office of Inspector General from Baltimore City about a juvenile diversion program indicated a ...

SEATTLE — King County is pumping the brakes on a diversion program meant to keep young people away from the criminal justice system. Referrals to Restorative Community Pathways (RCP) are on pause for ...

The Youth Diversion Office in Mitchell is looking to keep kids out of incarceration with a new kind of program that compliments its existing court diversion resources. Davison County is one of three ...

Advocates heralded a series of bills aimed at overhauling Michigan's juvenile justice system signed into law Tuesday while urging lawmakers to pass one more piece of legislation ensuring legal ...

The Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office announced recently that it is creating a Juvenile Restorative Justice Diversion Program. The program was created in a partnership with the Georgia ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — Monroe County's Juvenile Enhanced Diversion Stabilization (JEDS) program, launched in 2023 to address rising youth crime, is showing successful results, according to county ...

Jill Mencke, a youth justice analyst at the Oklahoma Policy Institute, said early judgments made about children who cross paths with the police or others in the justice system can negatively affect ...

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LANSING, Mich. — Legislation aimed at improving juvenile justice in the state passed in the Michigan House and Senate Tuesday. Supported by Attorney General Dana Nessel, multiple House and Senate ...