In 2017, 74 percent of African-American youth in Missouri who went through this process were certified to be tried as adults, compared to 26 percent of their white peers. In 2018 data, it was 56 ...

The Department of Juvenile Services (DJS) provides care and treatment, consistent with the public safety, to boys and girls under the age of eighteen who violate the criminal law, or are likely to ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. On Tuesday, Ohio ...

The mood was celebratory as Kentucky and federal officials crowded into the Capitol Rotunda on a cold January day in 2001 to announce the end of five years of federal oversight of the state’s ...

The city will dedicate nearly $5 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to develop new programs in New Orleans for arrested juveniles, whose numbers have risen, particularly in cases ...

In town halls and in conversations with community associations across Maryland over the past two years, citizens have expressed concern with the state of our juvenile justice system. Maryland ...

In the months since California closed the last of its juvenile facilities, some of the counties now managing the new system have funded new higher education programming for incarcerated students, ...

Ohio's youth prison and juvenile detention centers are failing. Kids in the state's juvenile justice system often face violence and neglect, while guards remain overwhelmed, understaffed and in fear ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- New laws in Vermont aim to place fewer young adults in the adult criminal justice system. A 2016 law that took effect July 1 makes those under the age of 21 eligible for ...

New Mexico is a small state, but it's near the top when it comes to death rates from both gun violence and drug overdoses. The firearms mortality rate has doubled since 2005, to 27.8 deaths per ...

(The Center Square) - Building on progress begun with the state’s Juvenile Justice Task Force, which published its findings in 2021, have relaunched the bipartisan Youth and Public Safety Caucus. The ...