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 ...

South Dakota prosecutors filed more juvenile delinquency petitions in fiscal year 2023 than at any time in nearly a decade, according to an annual report presented Wednesday to a state committee. The ...

Over the course of a weekend last month, the Los Angeles County Probation Department transferred all 135 children held at Central Juvenile Hall so state inspectors could assess the building. The ...

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 ...

The Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center in West Dallas on July 6, 2023. The Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center is where kids in Dallas are detained while they wait for their cases to be adjudicated.

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 ...

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 ...