Illinois is first state to bar police from lying to juveniles during interrogations

Effort aims to reduce false confessions, as other measures seek to reduce prison population and support restorative justice

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/16/illinois-police-lying-juveniles-false-confessions

Republican Judge Loses Election, Releases Juvenile Defendants Because That's 'What the Voters Wanted' - Newsweek

Judge Glenn Devlin reportedly asked juvenile defendants if they planned to "go out and murder anybody" before releasing them. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-judge-loses-election-releases-juvenile-defendants-because-thats-1206888

Louisiana Denies Parole to Man Whose Supreme Court Win Freed Hundreds of Others -- Mother Jones

In 2016, against all odds, Henry Montgomery managed to get his case before the Supreme Court and win it. The 71-year-old was serving life without parole in Angola, Louisiana's most notorious prison, where he'd been since he murdered a police officer at age 17. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/louisiana-denies-parole-to-man-whose-supreme-court-win-freed-hundreds-of-others/

The United States’ War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors’ Prisons

If one important measure of a democracy is how a society treats its children, especially poor youth of color, there can be little doubt that American society is failing. As the United States increasingly models its schools after prisons and subjects children to a criminal legal system marked by severe class and racial inequities, it becomes clear that such children are no longer viewed as a social investment but as suspects. Under a neoliberal regime in which some children are treated as criminals and increasingly deprived of decent health care, education, food and housing, it has become clear that the United States has both failed its children and democracy itself.

Not only is the United States the only nation in the world that sentences children to life in prison without parole, the criminal legal system often functions so as to make it more difficult for young people to escape the reach of a punishing and racist legal system. For instance, according to a recent report published by the Juvenile Law Center, there are close to a million children who appear in juvenile court each year subject to a legal system rife with racial disparities and injustices....
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_united_states_war_on_youth_from_schools_to_debtors_prisons_20161021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdig%253A+Drilling+Beneath+the+Headlines

Inside The L.A. Juvenile Detention Center That’s Been Compared To A ‘Third World Country Prison’

Hundreds of kids in Los Angeles are languishing in a detention center that one probation monitor likens to a “Third World country prison.” According to a scathing new report on conditions in L.A. County’s main juvenile detention center, Central Juvenile Hall, some 200 kids — most of whom are waiting for their trials to start — are living in squalid units and tossed in solitary confinement for minor infractions.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/07/3757225/deplorable-conditions-for-juveniles-in-la-county-detention-center/