The US Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), which was originally enacted in 1974, provides funding to states that employ practices designed to avoid inappropriate detention and incarceration of youths. Reauthorization of the JJDPA is pending in the US Congress, and it should be passed. Please take few minutes to learn more about it and to act in support of it.
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Watch a one-minute video produced by the Childrens Defense Fund and published on YouTube; it explains why it is important to reauthorize the JJDPA. Click on the video to view it; cut and past the link and please share it with your networks.
- Sign a petition encouraging the US House of Representatives to pass the legislation.
- Sign a petition encouraging the US Senate to pass the legislation.
- Visit theAct 4 Juvenile Justice site to learn more.
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