A mother is charged with obstruction and assault on an officer after police found a missing teenager hiding in her hotel room.

As H. Lynn Hadnot prepares to take over Dallas County Juvenile Services as director next month, he said a top priority will ...

A new wave of sexual assault complaints has been levied against the City of New York, bringing the total number of alleged ...

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

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

Twelve jurors will soon decide the fate of Adrian Jerry “AJ” Gonzalez. When he was 15 years old, Gonzalez sexually assaulted ...

The Kenosha teen charged with making a terroristic threat against an elementary school will serve one year in a juvenile detention center.It happened in early November. A teen, ...

Investigators faulted the guard, now fired, for excessive force and said neither youth was acting combative. The incidents ...

A state prison, a juvenile detention facility, three county jails and a federal detention center sit just outside the Border ...

Deputies arrested a woman who shot her husband Thursday afternoon, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office.

Two teens were arrested and charged in the shooting death of 22-year-old Treyvon Molette on Wednesday, according to police.