Obama Proposes “Social Impact Bonds” to Fund Social Service Projects
The White house is floating the idea of raising money from private investors to pay for privately managed social programs. The Baltimore Sun reports on this experimental investment scheme that would...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Get Real about Kids and Detention, Anecdotes, Evidence,...
It's time to get real about kids and detention. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Well, here are my blaspheming thoughts. I am tired of those with...
View ArticleFight Ahead Over Bold California Move to Close State-Run Youth Prisons
This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity California, often a trendsetter, could make history if it approves Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to close all state-run youth prisons and...
View ArticleBad Mentoring Overheard While Waiting for the Elevator
Working in a juvenile court in metro Atlanta, I become a fly on the wall to some interesting conversations that take place among kids while they wait for appointments. Not long ago, while I was waiting...
View ArticleAlternatives to Youth Detention Conference Opens in Houston
Texas State Senator John Whitmire came to the podium last night at the opening of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) conference in Houston and got right to the core work of the JDAI....
View ArticleBart Lubow: Cutting Youth Incarceration Doesn’t Cut Public Safety
Bart Lubow, who has been working for more than 20 years to reduce the number of youth being sent to detention centers, told a gathering of approximately 700 conference attendees this morning that now...
View ArticleBart Lubow on the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI)
Bart Lubow, who has been working for more than 20 years to reduce the number of youth being sent to detention centers, told a gathering of 700 attendees at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives...
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