by Douglas Keillor | Jan 17, 2018 | News
This past week we conducted our first training seminar for juvenile detention center personnel – guards, counselors, social workers and probation officers. We spent a week training them on human rights, prevention of torture, supervising teenagers on release...
by Douglas Keillor | Oct 4, 2017 | News
(Video only available in Spanish) Last September 28th, Congressperson Victor Manuel Sanchez Orozco, of the Movimiento Ciudadano party, presented a legal reform to the National Juvenile Justice System Law in Mexico´s National Congress. Juvenile Justice Advocates has...
by Douglas Keillor | Sep 27, 2017 | News
Special post by Rebecca Rosefelt, our 2017 Summer Intern: I had prepared myself for the worst. Over the year I’d read a variety of articles and stories on prison: stories about inmates who fought for prison education; a journalist who went undercover as a correctional...
by Douglas Keillor | Jun 22, 2017 | News
This summer, Rebecca Rosefelt, a law student at the University of Minnesota, is our legal intern. Rebecca is spending her summer in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua city interviewing detained teenagers, helping present workshops on prisoner rights to teens and...
by Douglas Keillor | May 19, 2017 | News
This year we are starting a new project in Mexico City. We haven’t worked in the Mexico City juvenile detention centers for three years. Today was the first time that I have returned to the pretrial detention center in Mexico City. In 2013, on any given day...
by Douglas Keillor | Mar 30, 2017 | News
Our first “Know Your Rights” workshop with juveniles and family members at the CERSAI juvenile detention center in Ciudad Juárez… Saturday, March 18th we were very excited to begin our “Know Your Rights” workshop, in collaboration with...
After a night shift and only a couple of hours of sleep, Angela went to a detention center in… Read more: She Couldn’t Visit Her Brother. She Went Anyway.
See how family engagement and professional training advance more effective youth justice that respects young people’s rights.
Families reconnect. Communities participate. Systems move forward. This month, JJAI’s work across the Americas shows what youth justice reform… Read more: September 2026 Update
She finally made it to see her son. This month, families across Honduras overcame incredible barriers to be together.… Read more: August 2026 Update
The Latin American Network of Alternative-to-Detention Implementers is now underway Following a regional selection process, four institutions from Bolivia,… Read more: July 2026 Update
In Honduras, we celebrated Mother’s Day Over the past several weeks, thanks to the generosity of our Restore the… Read more: A Mother’s Day of Hope in Honduras