juveniles

Number Of Young Detainees In NE Up For 2023

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Child advocates say Nebraska is locking up more teenagers than necessary and failing to track how often they place them in solitary…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new report says Nebraska is overusing solitary confinement on juveniles and warns that policies on how it is enforced vary widely…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's courts and office of probation administration say a report that is critical of what was called a lack of progress on…

A new report says Nebraska doesn’t have a way to measure whether the money spent on two youth treatment and rehabilitation centers has brought…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature has passed a bill this session that would allow Iowa courts to continue sentencing juveniles to life in…

A new report says Nebraska spends more than $126,000 a year to incarcerate a young person.The Justice Policy Institute report looks at the costs of youth…

Lawmakers Wednesday advanced a bill aimed at overhauling Nebraska’s juvenile justice system.LB561, introduced by Senator Brad Ashford of Omaha, would…

Juveniles convicted of Class 1A felonies would no longer face a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole under a bill introduced by…