A new bill making its way through the Washington State Senate is drawing attention for its controversial provision that could ...

Jeff Landry has secured $42 million to reopen a youth prison in the Baton Rouge area, part of his push to expand juvenile ...

Thirty Los Angeles based correctional officers held 'gladiator'-style fights between detainees inside a juvenile hall, a bombshell indictment has alleged. Officers looking after youths kept ...

Young people with child-welfare histories are overrepresented at every stage of the juvenile and criminal legal systems, an ...

A teen mom grew up in Philly’s child-welfare system. When she gave birth in juvenile detention, the system took her daughter.

In just a matter of months, Gov. Jeff Landry plans to reopen a Baton Rouge-area youth prison shuttered a little over a decade ...

Last fall, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) confirmed that at least six inmates burned themselves — though ...

Recent crime statistics show an increase in juvenile arrests since 2023 in Caddo Parish. Records from the Caddo Parish ...

A former NSW juvenile corrections officer jailed for sexually abusing five boys is appealing her conviction and prison ...

A 28-year-old Culpeper man has been sentenced to life in prison for the sexual assault of a juvenile. On Feb. 27, Christopher Craig was sentenced for aggravated sexual battery and object sexual ...

A 42-year-old man will return to state prison for 10 more years for shooting a juvenile male last spring. He was convicted of a similar crime in 1997 ...