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Calls for an end to the law that automatically transfers children charged with certain felony offenses from juvenile court into adult criminal court.

An estimated 200,000 registered sex offenders in the United States are children, many as young as eight years old.

Judge George W. Timberlake, chair of the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission was named as the 2014 recipient of the Champion for Change in State Leadership award on Monday.

The award was announced at the annual national conference of Models for Change, a juvenile justice reform initiative funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

WASHINGTON — George W. Timberlake retired from the Illinois bench in 2006 — but certainly not from juvenile justice work. Since 2004, Timberlake has devoted countless hours to five demonstration Models for Change reforms in Illinois supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice has released an annual report documenting its mandates, responsibilities, challenges, progress, and outcomes.

CHICAGO — A summer jobs program that engaged mentors to help troubled kids stay on track is linked with a big reduction in youth arrests for violent crimes.

Students break the rules and when they do there's a punitive system in place in most schools. But other schools are handling discipline problems a different way and Springfield District 186 is looking into those practices to see how it could work here