| 01/27/2012

*** There are 368 days left in Obama’s first term, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The new Acting Administrator, Melodee Hanes, hit the ground running with the announcement of a partnership between the agency and the Chicago-based John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. OJJDP and MacArthur will split the $2 million tab on a venture to address targeted juvenile justice reforms, with an eye toward improving services for juveniles who come into delinquency court from the child welfare system. MacArthur, which started making juvenile justice grants in the mid-90s and developed the Mo...