Photo of March 11th event in Norfolk, VA Family Meeting School to Prison Pipeline Date: April 19th at 6pm Location: Union United Church of Christ | 877 Goff Street, Norfolk, VA Have you or someone you care about been impacted…

While a great deal of my time & energy this General Assembly session was spent on ensuring the success of the “Fostering Futures” program for youth aging out of foster care, I also spent considerable energy on a plethora of bills…

  Holding youth accountable for their actions is important. And so is setting the groundwork so that they can become productive adults. That’s why a wide range of Virginians are embracing the need to transform the state’s juvenile justice system,…

RISE for Youth Coalition Meeting Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 |1pm-3pm Location: Richmond Public Library- Main Branch- 101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 Join us for our next RISE for Youth Coalition meeting.  At this meeting, we will do…

Dismantling the New Jim Crow : A Series of Forums Discussion on the School to Prison Pipeline Image provided by the Performing Statistics Project   Friday, March 11, 2016 | 7pm  Faith Deliverance Christian Center     1010 E. 26th Street, Norfolk,…

Professor Richard Bonnie’s recent opinion piece in the Roanoke Times ("It’s time to transform juvenile justice in Virginia," Feb. 18) makes a compelling and articulate case that Virginia’s juvenile justice system is broken and that over-reliance on incarceration of Virginia’s…

(Photo: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) Rebecca McCray is a staff writer covering social justice. She is based in New York.   Without the support of his family, Da’Quon Beaver doesn’t know how he would have made it through the seven years he…

Custody rates are calculated per 100,000 juveniles ages 10 through the upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction in each state. Map shows breakdowns of incarcerated youth by race, ethnicity and gender as compared to the general youth population in…

In January 2016 the RISE for Youth Coalition[1] facilitated a visioning session as a part of its new Youth for RISE Advisory Network. The Youth for RISE Advisory Network brings together formerly incarcerated youth and those impacted or interested in…

Last week, Virginia’s House Appropriations and Senate Finance committees gathered in Richmond to begin considering the governor’s proposed budget, including a $90.5-million plan to transform the Commonwealth’s juvenile justice system. As legislators weigh the plan, they should be aware of…