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Getting tough on teen crime can produce more adult crime. Ohio needs a new strategy
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 6 months agoFew would argue a 17-year-old who commits a major felony crime deserves a lesser punishment than an...
Special report: Ohio's juvenile detention system struggles with violence, neglect
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOhio's youth prison and juvenile detention centers are failing. Kids in the state's juvenile justice...
Sending kids to adult prisons creating new generation of criminals
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRobert Daniel learned how brutal Ohio’s adult prison system can be on kids when he was a scrawny...
Kids Behind Bars: Chaos, violence and neglect plague youth prisons and detention centers
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOhio’s juvenile prisons and detention centers are supposed to be safe places, where the state’s most...
Ohio is creating 'monsters' at youth prisons. DeWine must act now to save kids | Our View
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOhio Gov. Mike DeWine is a champion for meaningful education reform and youth mental health...
Anti-Choice Groups Say 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Should’ve Been Forced to Give Birth
SheKnows via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn a truly unconscionable move, anti-abortion groups are insisting that a 10-year-old girl who was...
The crime and public safety stories that defined Columbus in 2023
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 months agoShootings, homicides and a tragic crash dominated central Ohio's public safety headlines in 2023...
Year later, Ohio law making strangulation a felony sees few convictions in Franklin County
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA 31-year-old man admitted in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to attacking his ex-girlfriend...
'I'm not dropping this.' Wife of guard assaulted in Ohio youth prison blames the state
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPatricia Upshaw won't stop. She can't. She doesn't want what happened to her husband to happen to anyone else. On Tuesday, her 60-year-old husband, David Upshaw, a guard at Indian River Juvenile ...
A "Parentless" 16-Year-Old Was Denied An Abortion Because A Court Ruled She's Not "Mature" Enough
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe teen "had not established by clear and convincing evidence that she was sufficiently mature to...