James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

The 115 new alleged victims, who each brought suit on Monday, joined hundreds of other survivors who have filed cases since ...

A new wave of sexual assault complaints has been levied against the City of New York, bringing the total number of alleged ...

The 16-year-old being held in a Greeley youth detention center who suffered a medical emergency in October died from complications of acute fentanyl toxicity, the Weld County coroner ruled.

Despite a federal civil-rights investigation, problems continue at Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, a Herald-Leader ...

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 ...

Jayden Little, who was 17 when he escaped from a Lincoln youth detention center but since has turned 18, was sentenced to 15½ to 25½ years in prison.

The girl was being held in the Benton County Juvenile Detention Center. There are rules against the staff having any physical contact with detainees. Constant, who has been a teacher at the ...

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 to ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former leader at a New Hampshire youth detention center who was convicted of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998 was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison.