How Raise The Age Ensures that Young People Get More Opportunity
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Marissa Saunders, Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Community Alternati
Letter to DOCCS: Eliminate Solitary C...
We echo the #HALTsolitary Campaign's call for New York to adopt all provisions of the HALT Solitary Confinement Act. For young people, their families
Hillbrook Detention Center Plans to E...
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"It's really important not to just have the space, but to have a safe space and make sure that the facility is equipped with what it needs to keep you
Rochester treatment center takes supp...
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Zequa Tookes and Devon Greene work closely with local sixteen-and seventeen-year-olds, who they say are in need of help. “We understand you’ve mad
Raise the Age: What’s working, ...
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October 9, 2019 – Rochester, NY – It’s been about a year since part of the Raise the Age law was implemented in Monroe County and th
Raise the Age Law Now Fully in Effect
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The Raise the Age law fully went into effect in New York this month. It raises the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old in a state that used
Raise The Age Now Applies to 17-year-olds
Starting this month, 17-year-olds here in New York will no longer be placed in the adult criminal justice system.
The Sky Did Not Fall
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Allison Lake, Executive Director of the Westchester Children's Associate, talks about why all our children should be treated as children and given cha
One Year After Raise the Age, Misdeme...
October 3, 2019 – On October 1, Mayor de Blasio and The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) announced the one year anniversary of the Ci
Our 2020 Agenda for Achieving Youth J...
October 1, 2019 – Today marks the first day that 17-year-olds are covered by New York’s landmark Raise the Age Law, reflecting the final phase of
Early progress of Cuomo’s youth justi...
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Nearly a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Raise the Age legislation moving 16- and 17-year-olds out of the adult justice system, s
Tompkins is an ‘anchor’ c...
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September 26, 2019 – TOMPKINS COUNTY, N.Y. – When Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Raise the Age legislation into law in April 2017, the administr