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Juvenile Justice Updates

The Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission (JCJC) released the latest recidivism report, highlighting Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice recidivism rate of 11.7% for youth ending supervision in 2019, the lowest it has been …

The Juvenile Court Judges' Commission (JCJC) released the latest recidivism report, highlighting Pennsylvania's juvenile justice recidivism rate of 11.7% for youth ending supervision in 2019, the lowest it has been since the state began tracking in 2007. In the report, recidivism is defined as a su...

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