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.

Despite a letter and paperwork to transfer oversight of the youth detention center from the sheriff to court, the transition ...

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

The Cascade County Juvenile Detention Center will add an expansion building, with a gymnasium and overcapacity housing, and ...

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, ...

The Youth Justice and Education Center was built with a courtroom inside, and a juvenile court spokesperson said that judges and magistrates have been using that courtroom for over two months in ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — State police in Westmoreland County had to stop what they are calling a riot at a juvenile detention center over the ... The damage to the inside of the facility is estimated ...

State police in Westmoreland County say they stopped what they're calling a riot in a juvenile detention center over the weekend. Four teens are being charged as adults for their roles in the ...