Apart from codifying the rights of children in custody, the legislature should hold hearings this winter where state ...

Marcus Walker said the sexual abuse he experienced two decades ago as a teenager at an Illinois youth detention facility has ...

A group of parishes along the Mississippi River is seeking more than $36 million in state funds to create a juvenile jail on ...

New Jersey’s Indiscriminate Prosecution of Children as Adults,” reveals that prosecutors have near-total discretion to decide ...

It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated ...

A Louisville-based organization that works to improve the lives of Kentucky kids says there needs to be major reform in the state's juvenile justice system.

Pace now helps mentor incarcerated youth through the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project. One of those youths is 26-year-old Raequan Deal, born and raised in Philadelphia. In 2016, when he was 17, Deal ...

WAVE Troubleshooters have confirmed two managers were fired from the McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center following ...

Survivors of sexual abuse at Illinois Youth Centers (IYCs) and the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) have filed new lawsuits against the state, bringing the total to 800 cases.

A Montana man linked to the case of Alicia Navarro — the girl who walked into a police station four years after vanishing as ...

an organization dedicated to preventing children like him from being placed in adult jails and prisons and advocating for the release of "juvenile lifers." "Being in jail was no fun place ...