The Ohio mother of a 5-year-old girl who was allegedly raped, beaten, and strangled by two other children pleaded with a judge on Wednesday not to show leniency to the young defendants. Antavia ...

In an alley in Little Village on Chicago's West Side, the faint sound of music from a Spanish-speaking radio station wafts in the air and garbage cans are sprayed with gang graffiti. They look like ...

CABARRUS COUNTY, N.C. — Channel 9′s Hannah Goetz uncovered a federal lawsuit alleging juvenile detention centers in North Carolina are violating the U.S. Constitution by keeping kids in solitary ...

12:52 p.m. April 8, 2024: An earlier version of this editorial gave the wrong day for the meeting of the Board of State and Community Corrections. It is meeting Thursday. It’s not at all clear what ...

In its first meeting on Wednesday, the committee reviewed new data from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Sprucing up the city is no easy feat in Wilkes-Barre. Even with heavy lifting, many hands from Luzerne County's Juvenile Probation system made light work on Wednesday. Kids getting ...

L.A. County's Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar is shown in 2022. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) A woman was arrested on suspicion of attempting to bring fentanyl into a Los Angeles ...

Some folks in the state of Washington are wondering if Becca’s Law might be doing more harm than good and I tend to think it is. If you’re not familiar, Becca’s Law essentially lets judges in ...

The Richard L. Bean juvenile detention center in Knox County operates at a quarter capacity, costing taxpayers over $167,000 ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Sprucing up the city is no easy feat in Wilkes-Barre. Even with heavy lifting, many hands from Luzerne County's Juvenile Probation system made light work on Wednesday. Kids getting ...