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3 unusual facts about Juvenile court


California Division of Juvenile Justice

In recent years, California's juvenile justice system has received intense and increasing criticism from experts nationwide for running draconian youth prisons.

Juvenile court

The Scottish Children's Reporter Administration, a Scottish Government executive non-departmental public body with responsibility for protecting children at risk, became operational in 1996.

Juvies

Both the MTV and MSNBC versions of Juvies depict what happens to offenders in the Indiana Juvenile Justice system.



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Andrew Valdez

When Valdez returned home from the JAG Corps he once again resumed his position as trial counsel with the Legal Defenders Association Felony and Homicide Division.Valdez spent 9 years working as a public defender and in 1993 he was appointed a Third District Juvenile Court Judge by then Governor Michael O. Leavitt.

Boys' Reformatory

Small-framed Frankie Darro had a long career playing teens in juvenile delinquency films such as Wild Boys of the Road, Wanted by the Police (1938), Tough Kid (1938), Reformatory (1938), and Juvenile Court (1938).

Custody battle for Anna Mae He

In May 2004 after a 10-day trial, Judge Robert L. Childers, a Tennessee circuit judge, terminated Hes' parental rights on grounds of willful abandonment, despite Hes' persistent effort to get custody back via Juvenile Court.

Farnum Fish

The November 4, 1914 Oakland Tribune reported that he had been charged with trying to steal an automobile as a "Halloween joke", also noting that he had previously been involved "in several bizarre episodes which brought him to the notice of the Los Angeles juvenile court".

Frederic Oddone

In 1994, Mr. Oddone was appointed to the Third District Juvenile Court by then Governor Michael Leavitt.

Juvies

The unprecedented access (including voluminous amounts of CCTV footage) to the juvenile court system, which is typically closed, was obtained by Calamari Productions from the Indiana Supreme Court.