Louisiana officials expect to put tens of millions of dollars over the next two months into expanding juvenile detention ...

Karen Keith’s fellow county commissioners are defending the Tulsa mayoral candidate against allegations of youth abuse ...

On Aug. 8, the juvenile center was written up for housing six inmates OJJ said should be in an adult correctional facility.

Two former residents of a juvenile treatment center, located in Cresson until it was shuttered in 2015, are suing the ...

The North Central Secure Treatment Unit in Danville was among the Pennsylvania juvenile detention and treatment centers named ...

A drop in youth involvement in most serious crimes might allow for a rethink of the juvenile justice system, advocates and ...

New juvenile justice laws will be implemented Friday in Maryland that ... What’s more, our predecessors failed to draw down millions in federal funding to support efforts to tackle juvenile crime. We ...

The Family Center for Juvenile Justice has been under intense public ... of the FCJJ’s director in early May, followed by a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of facility ...

A Baltimore criminal defense attorney called for a federal ... juvenile detention facility under active shooter protocol. Two state police officers entered the Western Maryland Children’s Center ...

A former Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice employee, Nathaniel K. Lumpkins, 33, of Elkfork, Ky., was sentenced Tuesday to 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David Bunning for one count ...

In the months since the law has taken effect, Lafayette has been scrambling to figure out who should house 17-year-olds, and ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A Baltimore criminal defense attorney called for a federal investigation Tuesday into the conditions inside the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services’ detention and ...