Nebraska lawmakers will consider a bill aimed at making the streets of its urban areas safer, targeting young people who commit violent crimes and giving the system more resources to deal with them.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen ... press conference at the state house Thursday on juvenile justice bill, LB 556. LINCOLN — Children as young as 12 years old could face adult criminal charges for ...

“We’re talking about young kids,” Patty Pansing Brooks, a former Nebraska state senator from ... A national study by the Council on Criminal Justice shows a general decrease in juvenile ...

Anne Hobbs of the Juvenile Justice Institute at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and several youths. Shakur Abdullah, a Nebraskan previously charged and sentenced in criminal court at a young ...

His conviction was later overturned. (Paul Hammel/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — The Justice Department’s second push to prosecute former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., appears headed to an end ...

Children as young as 12 years old could face adult criminal charges for certain felony crimes under a bill introduced in the Nebraska Legislature.

Anne Hobbs, a researcher with the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s juvenile justice institute, says the state needs to focus on the few young children who need help, instead of creating entire ...