Some members of Allegheny County’s new Juvenile Detention Board of Advisors are raising tough questions that reflect some of ...

Maryland’s insistence on being out of step with the rest of the country is long overdue for course correction.

Lincoln Hills has been found to be in full compliance by the court-appointed monitor, marking a new era in the prison's ...

Dallas County believes change is happening to improve juvenile detention. Unless they are overselling, it's the kind of modification that needs to happen. "In essence, we were taking kids who were not ...

Proposed legislation in Kansas cracks open state guidelines to allow courts to sentence any kid deemed an offender to juvenile prison, reversing a decade-old effort to treat youth incarceration as a ...

State inspections have revealed critical issues in juvenile detention centers, including severe understaffing and ...

Knox County Board officials told KWQC an Illinois judge closed the center.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Children are being locked in solitary confinement at a Tennessee juvenile detention center under conditions that experts say could amount to torture. The Tennessee Department of ...

When in recent years Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul investigated claims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church statewide, he was outspoken in his quest for justice. “… when such trust is ...