Clark County’s Children’s Justice Center, which advocates for abused children in the justice system and prosecutes perpetrators, is facing a serious budget shortfall. At the heart of the crisis are ...

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The Justice Department for the first time is weighing in on a state court case on whether some courts are depriving juveniles of their rights to a lawyer. The department filed a statement of interest ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is encouraging kids to ask how they can help make the world a better place in her new children’s book. In “Just Help! How to build a better world,” children are ...

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ELKINS, W.Va. — The West Virginia Children’s Home in Elkins will close at the end of the year due to age and low levels of use. Gov. Jim Justice During the Tuesday media briefing, Gov. Jim Justice ...

A federal investigation has found that the state’s juvenile justice system provides an “unsafe environment” for both children and staff due to severe understaffing and a lack of resources, according ...

Scattered throughout the strategy to drive down the number of Aboriginal children in Victoria's youth justice system are fragments of pain. "I wanted to be with family … when I first got there I knew ...