ATLANTA - Emails show that a Georgia juvenile justice official was angered by a writer's coverage of a bill that would keep some reports of problems in juvenile lockups secret...
The latest proposal is intended to place nonviolent youth offenders into community based programs that treat root causes of criminal behavior rather than putting perpetrators behind bars.
A special council is recommending Georgia's juvenile justice system save its out-of-home facilities for the most serious offenders and strengthen community programs to reduce recidivism.
The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice has satisfied federal auditors that it no longer requires intensive monitoring, members of the state agency's board learned Thursday.
This year, the Augusta Youth Development Campus ranked second among Georgia juvenile justice facilities in employee misconduct, contraband and youth-on-staff altercations.
...suspended the remainder of Amber Rose Lever's one-year jail term. She will be released from a Sandersville, Ga., juvenile detention facility Thursday.Lever, 16, was driving a friend's Mercury Mountaineer on May 26 when she veered...
ATHENS, GA. - The Department of Juvenile Justice fired a correctional officer Thursday for having an inappropriate relationship with a teen from Athens at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center.
...She had been an educator for 26 years."She touched the lives of many young people in the Augusta area and the Georgia Juvenile Justice system," Shuler said.At the campus, she taught language arts and ran the Mock Trial Team."The young...
...McDevitt, the president of the Atlanta-based Georgia Alliance for Children. "It defies logic that kids go to the Georgia juvenile justice system, and it's such a great system that none of them end up in adult prison. "If that's right...
...were already serving as the Juvenile Court judges in Richmond, Columbia and Burke counties, respectively. In Georgia, Juvenile Court judges have the authority to decide where children should live after their parents are accused of abuse or...
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