Editor's note: This is the second story in a three-part series examining the juvenile-justice system in South Dakota. RAPID CITY - Professionals who work with children in trouble use a community-based ...

INDIANAPOLIS – A program designed to divert juveniles from the criminal justice system is expanding in Indianapolis, giving more teens facing low-level, non-violent charges an opportunity to avoid ...

California weakened juvenile justice tools through years of legislative reform. Assembly Bill 1376 limits court oversight in violent juvenile offender cases. Victims face trauma while released ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — It's been seven months since Nueces County launched its Juvenile Diversion Program -- a new effort to help teens who are starting to head down the wrong path. Instead of facing ...

Editor's note: This is the first in an occasional series about the juvenile justice system in Linn and Benton counties. Unless you are directly involved with the juvenile justice system, it’s likely ...

A Baltimore City pilot program that diverts first-time young offenders to support services instead of into the juvenile justice system is slated to expand citywide as early as this summer. Early ...

With overcrowding at one of Washington’s two youth prisons hitting a crisis point, state lawmakers this legislative session have homed in on juvenile crime and incarceration, hoping to provide relief ...

When Jazmyn Taitingfong was a juvenile public defender, she saw firsthand how certain kids were criminalized for just being kids. She remembers one child who was accused of damaging property while ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A program meant to rehabilitate certain teens who get arrested in Travis County did not work as intended for one of the participants. We are not identifying the teen because he is a ...