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.

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

RIGHT NOW, COUNTIES CAN CHARGE A YOUTH AS YOUNG AS 14. AS AN ADULT ... RIPPY PLANS TO INTRODUCE HIS OWN BILL REVISING JUVENILE JUSTICE PARAMETERS. THIS ONE IS BACKED BY GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...