Philadelphia incarcerates a higher percentage of teenagers than any other major American city. Once in the system, kids are ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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.

A teen charged as an adult with raping and murdering a 61-year-old Brunswick woman at her home early last year will proceed ...

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