History of juvenile justice

​​​​​​​On May 15, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark In re Gault ruling affirmed children's constitutional right to counsel, a holding intended to remedy significant liberty and due process deprivations for our nation's youth.

This blog post focuses on the "Scottsboro Boys," who collectively spent a total of 130 years in Alabama jails and prisons for a crime they did not commit.