The nation's juvenile detention centers are largely ill-equipped to handle transgender teens, leaving them vulnerable to bullying, sexual assault, depression and suicide, advocates say. Young ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who was being held at the Blount County ...

Frustrated in previous attempts, those behind the drive to extend the age of juveniles in the justice system took their message to Beacon Hill earlier this week. Advocates at a State House event ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A years-long civil lawsuit over conditions at the Charleston County Juvenile Detention ...

In monthly reports, Dept. of Juvenile Justice facilities say they struggle with inadequate staffing, costly overtime and safety concerns.

The new consent decree ends five years of litigation, installs independent oversight of juvenile jail staff and ends solitary confinement as punishment on children. A group of Nelson Mullins lawyers ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Fifteen Washington residents who were previously incarcerated at the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center testified that they were sexually abused by detention center guards in a ...

PHOENIX — It was a special night at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center on Wednesday. Some of the inmates earned the privilege to have a special dinner and bonding time with their families ahead of ...

CHEHALIS, Wash. — In the predawn hours one morning in April 2024, a guard at Washington's most secure juvenile detention facility unlocked a cell door, allowing a young double-murder convict to slip ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A Smith County juvenile supervision officer has been left with critical head injuries after he was reportedly attacked by an inmate with a shower rail. The attack took place ...