Some members of Allegheny County’s new Juvenile Detention Board of Advisors are raising tough questions that reflect some of ...

Dallas County believes change is happening to improve juvenile detention. Unless they are overselling, it's the kind of modification that needs to happen. "In essence, we were taking kids who were not ...

Proposed legislation in Kansas cracks open state guidelines to allow courts to sentence any kid deemed an offender to ...

The Mary Davis Home is a juvenile detention center in Galesburg. Officials said it will close by March 21 due to staffing, ...

Mary Davis Home is closing, Knox County Board officials told KWQC.

State inspections have revealed critical issues in juvenile detention centers, including severe understaffing and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Children are being locked in solitary confinement at a Tennessee juvenile detention center under conditions that experts say could amount to torture. The Tennessee Department of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One day after the superintendent of Knox County's juvenile detention center dismissed two key staff members, Richard Bean reversed ...

When in recent years Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul investigated claims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church statewide, he was outspoken in his quest for justice. “… when such trust is ...

In the 18th Lok Sabha, only two questions were about the Juvenile Justice Act, and none asked how states plan to actually ...

Kids at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center are getting the chance to learn how to play the guitar. It helps them take their minds off of what's going on and allows them to heal and have something ...