juvenile-justice-system

Bipartisan Senate bill would change how Pa. charges children as adults | Tuesday Morning Coffee

BY: - January 24, 2023

A judge would have to sign off before a juvenile case is moved to to adult court.

COMMENTARY

It’s time to stop warehousing Pa.’s children and rethink our juvenile justice system | Opinion

BY: - December 23, 2022

Rather than spend as much as $1,000 a day to lock children up, let’s invest in them and their communities.

SHUMAN CENTER

Allegheny Co. seeks developer to run private children’s detention center

BY: - October 20, 2022

The county will accept proposals from developers until Oct. 28.

Pa. lawmakers unveil bipartisan plans for juvenile justice system reform, standardize practices

BY: - March 14, 2022

The Juvenile Justice Policy Act, announced Monday in a memo from Sens. Camera Bartolotta, R-Washington, and Art Haywood, D-Philadelphia, aims to limit detention guidelines and standardize placement practices with recommendations from the Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Task Force.