by JJAI News | Apr 6, 2026 | News
Strengthening Family Bonds in Honduras and Costa Rica Strengthening Family Bonds in Honduras and Costa Rica Families are the most important sources of support and advocacy for children in detention. Our Family Reunification and Family Committees programs are critical...
by JJAI News | Apr 1, 2026 | News
We are working to break that cycle. In Central America, families whose children end up in the juvenile justice system didn’t get there by accident. They are almost always the same families, the poorest, the most exposed to violence, the farthest from real opportunity....
by Douglas Keillor | Apr 14, 2020 | News
Adolescents do not perceive freedom in the same way that we do, which is why in the face of a pandemic like that of COVID-19, we have to see not what we think they need, but what they really see as essential, according to Margoth Montaño,Head of the Cenvicruz Legal...
by Douglas Keillor | Dec 10, 2019 | News
Gerardo Guerrero, Head Consul of the Consulate of Mexico in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was awarded the 2019 Outstanding Advocate for Children In Prison Award on December 6th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Juvenile Justice Advocates International (JJAI) gives out the award...
by Douglas Keillor | Oct 30, 2019 | News
Juvenile Justice Advocates International showed the results of the pilot entitled: “Supervision of measures in freedom for adolescents in conflict with the law”, in the Superior Court of Justice of Chihuahua. At the event, it was explained that the tool...
Strengthening family bonds in Honduras and Costa Rica through family reunification, family committees, and coordinated justice reform efforts.
We are working to break that cycle. In Central America, families whose children end up in the juvenile justice… Read more: In Central America, the juvenile justice system keeps punishing the same families.
In Costa Rica and Honduras, on paper, families have the right to visit their children in juvenile detention. But… Read more: This Mother’s Day, you can restore the bond between a family and a child.
Juvenile Justice Advocates International urgently calls on the Minnesota State Legislature to adopt the Minnesota Juvenile Sentencing Reform Act… Read more: Pass Minnesota juvenile justice sentencing reform act