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As budget-strapped state legislatures seek ways to spend taxpayer dollars more effectively and efficiently, a growing number of states are turning to a solution that, until relatively recently, was assumed to be a budget buster: shifting delinquent youth...

Juvenile Justice Information Exchange By Marc A. Schindler During the past decade and a half, the number of young people confined or placed out of the home in the juvenile justice system has been cut in half. While there is still much more progress...

Why can't we embrace the idea that prisoners have labor rights? Laurie Hazen has bad taste in men. “They’re my downfall,” the 41-year-old jokes in her Massachusetts accent. “I have to really stay single.” An ex-boyfriend...

Image by © Dreamstime by Daniel J. D’Amico It’s now common knowledge: The United States is the world’s leading nation when it comes to imprisonment. With an estimated 1,570,400 inmates by the end of 2012—and an incarceration...

The Huffington Post | By Simon McCormack Posted: 02/05/2013 4:09 pm EST  |  Updated: 02/05/2013 4:09 pm EST A new report by a prominent human rights group paints an ugly picture of America's prison population and the sentencing guidelines that created...