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The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled a practice by the state's child welfare system is unconstitutional. Yesterday the State Supreme Court struck down a…
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Update 9:06 p.m.The appeals court ruled this evening the ban will continue to be in place while the case makes its way through the courts. Original post…
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Tomorrow, a federal court will hear arguments in the Michigan case, DeBoer v. Snyder. The case challenges the constitutionality of the state's ban on…
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The Michigan Senate will vote on Senate Bill 319 any day now.Under the bill, which is expected to pass, about 350 juveniles sentenced to mandatory life…
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In 2012, the US Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional. That doesn't mean it's impossible for a young…
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The school-to-prison pipeline is a nationwide pattern of students being pushed out of schools and into the criminal justice system.Groups like the ACLU…
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Adopted children, largely from international adoptions, are being put into harm's way by adoptive parents often at their wits end. As Megan Towhey of…
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In the slew of recent Supreme Court decisions there are people feeling like winners (LGBT married couples perhaps) and losers (voting rights and workplace…
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It's hard to decide how to process the recent spate of kids-going-to-jail-for-doing-things-kids-do stories.Over the past week or so, outrage has swelled…
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Next week Thursday at 3pm, and again at 10pm, State of Opportunity's Jennifer Guerra presents a special hour-long documentary on race, education, and…