CJJ Today

We applaud Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for their continued bipartisan leadership on juvenile justice. On April 30, 2015, the two Senators introduced legislation to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), our nation’s seminal federal legislation on juvenile justice. The JJDPA, which was first enacted in 1974, has played an important role in reforming and improving juvenile justice across the country. As Mark Soler, Director of the Center for Children’s Law and Policy stated during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week on related grant programs, “this statute saves children’s lives.”