JJIE.org Releases New Digital Magazine Featuring Stories of Key Juvenile Justice Issues

Last week the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange launched a new multimedia digital magazine in celebration of its fourth year of journalism. The new magazine will feature top stories in juvenile justice on key issues including mental health, substance abuse and disproportionate minority contact.

This new magazine platform will combine video, text and photography to offer a multimedia picture of juvenile justice and the complex issues surrounding it. The first issue, released last week, includes the following feature stories:

• Waiting a Year for Mental Health Assessment
• Execution of a 14-Year-Old
• A Tattoo At a Time, Doctor Erases the Past
• Girls’ Path to Detention
• Documenting ‘Stop and Frisk’
• Trans Teens
• In Boxing Ring, Two Men Confront Their Demons
• Battling Meth: A Mother’s Road to Recovery
• Ghosts of the Past
• ‘Sesame Street’ Helps Kids of Incarcerated Parents

JJIE.org is currently the only entity in the nation that provides daily coverage of juvenile justice with professional journalists. Leonard Witt, JJIE’s publisher, says, “The juvenile justice system is broken in many ways. We are providing high quality news, information and commentary for people who have the wherewithal to make sweeping legislative change or on-the-ground change to help make one child’s life better. It is a fulfilling mission.”

This special digital magazine is made possible by support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and will be released on a quarterly basis. Check it out here: http://www.jjie.org/magazine/
Image from the JJIE.org

Cecilia Bianco is the social and digital communications account coordinator for Prichard Communications. She contributes to the Reclaiming Futures blog regarding topics of juvenile justice reform and substance abuse prevention.