Juveniles – Motor City Muckraker

Prosecutor Worthy ignores Supreme Court directive on resentencing juvenile lifers

By Nick Krieger on August 14, 2016 Crime & Fire, Headline

Many inmates who were jailed for crimes they committed as juveniles in Wayne County may never be released because Prosecutor Kym Worthy has disregarded a key Supreme Court directive.

Police catch girls, ages 11 to 13, trying to burn down vacant Detroit school

By Steve Neavling on March 24, 2014 Crime & Fire, Fire, Government, Headline, Schools and Education

Police were shocked to find four girls setting fires inside the vacant Van Zile School.

Tensions flare as cops haul off teens before fireworks curfew

By Steve Neavling on June 24, 2013 Crime & Fire, Fire, Headline, posts

Authorities rounded up so many teens that they’ve run out of buses and are causing confusion about where the juveniles are being taken.