Douglas Overbey

3 weeks ago | civilbeat.org | Brett Peterson |Douglas Overbey |Chad Blair

The Hawaiʻi Legislature just passed bills that will lead to greater human rights protections for system-involved youth in Hawaiʻi. Too often vulnerable and abused children end up in our juvenile and adult criminal justice systems where they are subject to practices that run afoul of human rights norms. In Hawaiʻi, for example, there is no minimum age for when a child can be prosecuted in juvenile court.