In Philadelphia, the default is still confinement, said Nicole El, chief of the children and youth justice unit at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Recently, El said, a young client was held at Philade
Police say Pryor, an inmate at the Juvenile Justice Center in West Philadelphia, escaped from staff just before noon Wednesday in CHOP's emergency room parking lot at 34th and Spruce Streets. He'd been brought there to treat a hand injury. Police say after exiting the car, Pryor then move...
In the lawsuit filed last Friday, city attorneys said the state has refused to prioritize transferring juveniles from the overcrowded juvenile justice center. The city is asking a judge to mandate that the state take the sentenced juveniles within 20 days and either contract with a private or pub...
A Temple University student was arrested and expected to be charged with stabbing a recent graduate from the school 13 times early Sunday morning, police and school officials said. The 23-year-old suspect, whom police did not immediately identify, will be charged with attempted murder, aggravated...
Building an Outcome-based Information System for a Juvenile Justice System: Lessons From Philadelphia and San FranciscoPhilip W. HarrisTemple University
Later that evening, police say Days-Chapman met with the student’s parents at the parents’ house and informed them that the student had disclosed to school staff that the juvenile was being abused by them. DCP&P confirmed that there was no disclosure reported to them regarding the abuse ...
This study examined 21,041 cases of adjudicated youth at the disposition stage of the Philadelphia County Juvenile Justice System from 1996--2000 utilizing the database of the Crime and Justice Research Center of Temple University (ProDES). Conflict theory posited that race would affect decision-...