Schools and Juvenile Rights

Civil Liberties Minute: A Zero-Tolerance Policy
Today, we are rolling out a new zero-tolerance policy for schools.

Civil Liberties Minute: In Texas Schoolbooks
History, as it now will be taught in the high schools in Texas, will emphasize the contribution to America of segregationist governors during the civil rights struggle, the contract with America, the Heritage Foundation, and the moral majority.

Civil Liberties Minute: Teenaged Crime
The Supreme Court of The United States has decided that for crimes such as burglary, teenagers may not be locked up in prison for life without any possibility of parole.

Civil Liberties Minute: School Laptop Spying
Have you heard about the school in Pennsylvania that was using students' laptop computers to spy on them at home?

Civil Liberties Minute: Cops in Public Schools
Care to hear a cautionary tale about cops in public schools?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Life Without Parole
Almost all of the 100 people in the world serving a sentence of life without parole for crimes committed as a juvenile in which no one was killed are locked up in one country.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: A Six-Year-Old in Reform School
What lessons did a school system recently teach when it sentenced a well-behaved 6-year-old Cub Scout to 45 days of reform school? You decide.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Massachusetts Juvenile Murder Laws
Here's a fact about supposedly-liberal Massachusetts that may surprise you: The Commonwealth has the harshest law for juvenile murderers of any state in the country.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: A 13-year-old Girl
Should a 13 year-old middle school girl be strip searched when her vice principal suspects her of bringing Ibuprofin to school? Many educators and quite a few judges in America say yes.

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