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Tennessee judge who routinely jailed children announced she's retiring, but traumatized former detainees say she's leaving the bench to 'avoid guilt'
One of the former detainees who was arrested and jailed as a minor said Judge Donna Davenport appea…
Katie Balevic
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Rajya Sabha passes Juvenile Justice Bill
The government sought support of all parties on the legislation to "deter many other boys" from doi…
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Why India direly needs Juvenile Justice law
Despite such a situation, Maneka Gandhi introduced the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Chi…
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The NYPD keeps almost 40% of the phones it seizes, and NYC lawmakers say that has a 'severe impact' on young people in the city
Many of those affected are children - and without their phones, some struggle to attend online scho…
Michelle Mark
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Critics are warning that the criminal-justice reform bill being hailed as a bipartisan victory doesn't go nearly far enough
The National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, an organization representing dozens of Prote…
Michelle Mark
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Here is a list of major bills to be introduced in the Winter Session of Parliament
As many as 22 bills are to be tabled this session, which intends to protect women, senior citiz…
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Most Americans approve of the bipartisan, Trump-backed criminal-justice reforms that the Senate just passed
SurveyMonkey Audience polls from a national sample balanced by census data of age and gender. Respo…
Michelle Mark
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Washout of monsoon session would cost tax payers heavy money
Parliament did not function for 91 per cent of its scheduled time. One hour of Lok Sabha costs exch…
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One of the reddest states in the US is leading the charge toward criminal-justice reform thanks to an unlikely political alliance
To say Gonzalez isn't the archetype for the chief criminal prosecutor for the southern Texas county…
Michelle Mark
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Clarence Thomas raised him 'as a son.' Now he's facing 25-plus years on weapons and drug charges.
Years ago, Thomas took in a 6-year-old relative who reminded him of himself. His sister's grandson,…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Paris Hilton says she was 'strangled, slapped across the face,' and 'watched in the shower by male staff' in 'troubled teen' facilities
Hilton detailed how she'd been confined to a room "covered in scratch marks and smeared in blood" d…
Debanjali Bose
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America's mass-incarceration problem is a huge cost suck for the entire economy — but it's especially devastating for minority communities
One study estimates the cost of incarceration in the US is $180 billion a year. "Throwing more poli…
Paul Constant
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With limited access to resources, high unemployment, and the mental health nightmare of 2020, it's no surprise crime is up in New York City
NYC has seen a 33% increase in murder and a more than 100% increase in shooting victims since this …
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Kaia Rolle was arrested at school when she was 6. Nearly two years later, she still 'has to bring herself out of despair.'
Kaia Rolle had to stand on a step stool to take a mugshot when she was 6. She has lingering symptom…
Taylor Ardrey
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Her son said his stepdad was sexually abusive. A judge gave the stepdad custody anyway. Then she found the photographs.
How the 'junk science' of parental alienation infiltrated American family courts and allowed accuse…
Olivia Gentile
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Curfews can be effective in preventing looting and violence amid social unrest but opponents say they give police too much power
Experts say curfew orders can help law enforcement separate peaceful protests from more violent act…
Connor Perrett
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The real differences between psychopaths and sociopaths and why you can't be officially diagnosed as either
Psychopaths and sociopaths are two subtypes of the diagnosable condition called antisocial personal…
Emily Swaim,Aaron Sternlicht
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Women could get up to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage under Georgia's harsh new abortion law
Under Georgia's law, it's so far unclear whether fetuses would be given their own separate trials o…
Grace Panetta
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No consensus on GST at all-party meet convened by Vice President Hamid Ansari
"There has been a very meaningful discussion in the meeting. A number of parties have expressed con…