Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Children are being locked in solitary confinement at a Middle Tennessee juvenile detention center under conditions that experts say could amount to torture, an ...

The names are of children stuck in jail for no legal reason — locked up in the county’s juvenile detention center only because the state’s child welfare agency doesn’t have anywhere else ...

Cook County juvenile jail is locking kids, teens in their cells for most of the day, scathing review finds The retired child psychologist Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans, named to head the ...

Juvenile justice in Ohio: How the system is supposed to work One night in detention or prison reduces a child's chances of graduating from high school by 50%, a judge says ...

Criminal Justice This Youth Detention Center Superintendent Illegally Locks Kids Alone in Cells. No One Has Forced Him to Stop. The Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center has been punishing kids ...

No one believes the juvenile jail is an appropriate plan. The children are treated like prisoners, some for months. They have been removed from their parents’ home, often because of abuse or ...

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal ...