Can kids go to prison? A legal expert explains how young people can be tried and sentenced as adults
There’s a separate justice system for people under 18 because their brains are still developing. Treating them as adults can turn them into repeat offenders.
A group of state lawmakers have decided the proceeds from selling the Sununu Youth Services Center should go to the state’s general fund, rather than directly into a settlement fund for victims of abuse at that facility. The move doesn’t preclude the state from using that money to compensate victims, but it doesn’t guarantee it. […]
New Hampshire Associate Attorney General Christopher Bond said during Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting that the state Department of Justice is doing its own investigation into potential abuse and neglect at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester. The allegations were first reported last week by the Office of the Child Advocate — a state watchdog […]
A jury was selected Wednesday in the first criminal case in New Hampshire’s Youth Development Center scandal to go to trial.
A settlement fund created by New Hampshire lawmakers continues to pay out millions of dollars to settle a flood of credible abuse claims again…