Local leaders passed resolutions calling for the city and county to move toward zeroing out the number of youth in detention.

More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois ...

The Illinois lawsuits are part of a wave of complaints against juvenile detention centers nationwide including in New Jersey, ...

A correctional captain at the McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center was fired after reports state he broke two boys' arms on separate incidents on the same day.

With an average length of stay of only 28 days, the Pennington County Juvenile Service Center works with kids daily through ...

ORDERED AS PART OF ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION AND THE JACK PROGRAM. PROBATION SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER. BUT COMMISSIONERS HAD A LOT OF FOCUS ON TWO MAJOR TOPICS IMPACTING JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

The center was first opened in 1990. However, with decreasing numbers of juvenile offenders and an increased focus in the criminal justice system on restorative justice and putting juveniles in ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a 63-year-old inmate at the Clay County Detention Center.Detention officers conducting routine cell checks Tuesday morning found Kenneth E. Scott ...

A male inmate was pronounced dead Saturday morning at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center, according to the Denver Sheriff Department. The department wrote in a news release that the inmate was ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - WAVE Troubleshooters have learned two managers at the McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center (MRJDC) have also been fired after a correctional captain broke the arms of ...

The teenager who led a planned group escape from a Lincoln youth detention center last summer, where he had been placed for second-degree murder, had just learned that a Douglas County judge was ...