A top Republican lawmaker who insulted people abused at New Hampshire’s youth detention facility has issued a written apology after facing mounting criticism. But he’s also now calling for tighter ...

A former Youth Development Center staffer, convicted in January of three counts of rape involving two teen boys court-ordered to the juvenile detention facility, was sentenced Thursday to ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...