juvenile

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The training involved participation and coaching by people who were incarcerated at Graterford prison, in Pennsylvania—many of them juvenile lifers.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

Scientists say the Riodeva fossil site continues to yield valuable material, including additional bones from the same adult dinosaur and rare juvenile remains.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

Glass eels are juvenile eels, aged one to two years, that have just completed their migration across the Atlantic from the Sargasso Sea.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

She hopes to bolster collaboration between the criminal and juvenile dependency systems, writing, “I have seen how families often navigate these systems simultaneously, yet the systems rarely communicate with one another.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Remarkably, several former juvenile lifers had developed outstanding institutional histories with very few disciplinaries, even though they did their time with no hope of ever being released or having their institutional history reviewed.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson