A catchall label for very different incidents has fueled calls for harsher punishment. A closer look points to solutions that help youth thrive and address safety without feeding fear.

“Violent ‘teen takeover’ chaos” reads a July 6 NBC News headline. The news segment features footage of fights and arrests in North Charleston, South Carolina, and Raleigh, North Carolina, over the holiday weekend. If you’re a regular consumer of news, this and similar footage from elsewhere in the nation may be familiar to you, as the supposed “tee ...

The 14th Amendment states that people born in the United States are citizens. No president can change that.

The day President Donald Trump was inaugurated, he signed an executive order attempting to sharply limit eligibility for birthright citizenship. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Trump v. Barbara a simple fact made clear by the U.S. Constitution: If you are born in the United States, you are an American citizen. This is a critical victory f ...

As Pride Month highlights the ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender people in prison continue to face denials of medically necessary care despite court orders protecting access.

Dee Farmer sees great risk if the federal government succeeds in its efforts to end critical health care for incarcerated people with gender-affirming care needs. “People will die,” Farmer told the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera), she herself a formerly incarcerated transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of people in prison for dec ...