Nearly 30,000 juveniles are currently sitting in residential confinement facilities across the United States, but new data ...

New legislation aims to standardize when juveniles are detained, give prosecutors the ability to charge juveniles as an adult ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Subscribe to their newsletter here. When Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon ran against former Juvenile Court Judge Dan ...

As school arrests rise, a look at what happens inside Leon County juvenile court to get students back on track.

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 ...

Illinois is raising the minimum juvenile detention age to 12 this year and 13 in 2027, prioritizing rehabilitation.

In some of California’s juvenile halls, food hasn’t just been scarce – it’s been weaponized as a form of child abuse. For years in Los Angeles County’s facilities, guards used the lack of quality ...

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 ...

One day after the superintendent of Knox County's juvenile detention center dismissed two key staff members, Richard Bean reversed course and reinstated both under pressure from Mayor Glenn Jacobs and ...

A recent audit report of the Department of Children’s Services called on lawmakers to get involved when it comes ...

Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take their minds off of what's going on and allows them to heal and have something ...