Commissioners are concerned over the increase in length of stay and the racial disparities in DCYC's latest report.

It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated mental illness or substance abuse. A new law will help them get Medicaid.

Apart from codifying the rights of children in custody, the legislature should hold hearings this winter where state ...

Caution: This post contains SPOILERS from Chicago PD season 12, episode 12. Intelligence gets a disturbing case. It all opens ...

A Kentucky juvenile justice guard broke the arms of two teens at McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Paducah, ...

A series of secret recordings of a detainee at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre were thrown out as evidence in a ...

The state’s largest facility for youth offenders remains over capacity, with one legislator describing the situation at the ...

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

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice is transferring incarcerated girls to the Ware Youth Center, with which the leader of ...

A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors deadlocked on whether a former worker at New Hampshire's youth detention center raped a 14-year-old boy in 1998, but the defendant still faces 15 ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors deadlocked on whether a former worker at New Hampshire's youth detention center raped a 14-year-old boy in 1998, but the ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors deadlocked on whether a former worker at New Hampshire's youth detention center raped a 14-year-old boy in 1998 ...