The office says that ending the practice of automatically charging children as adults could free up an estimated $20 million for juvenile services to invest in community resources. “If we are ...

Colorado’s Division of Youth Services, which oversees the state’s 14 youth detention and commitment facilities, had not ...

Teens arrested in Sangamon County will once again be held in the area after the Juvenile Detention Center reopened. Here's ...

A New Hampshire judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with raping a ...

An ongoing legal fight over the housing of juveniles ordered detained on criminal charges in New Jersey is ending in one court. But the battle appears far from over. The matter is moving to ...

New York State Police arrested 35-year-old Jerica J. Costich, from Rochester, on charges of rape after an allegation that she ...

Nine more former detainees are accusing an ex-staffer at a Bronx juvenile detention center of sexually abusing them as children, according to an avalanche of lawsuits that city lawyers are trying ...

Kendra Monsanto, claimed in her suit that she was repeatedly raped when she was at the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in The Bronx — where roughly 42% of the allegations took place — for ...