Punishment provides immediate, visible results, while empowering youth requires patience, understanding and time.

The nonprofit believes it's actually far more challenging for juvenile offenders to look their victims in the eye than ...

MISSOULA — When teenagers make mistakes and break rules or the law, they often get suspended from school or end up in the ...

There are more than 100 children on the waitlist for a Court Appointed Special Advocate in the greater Lynchburg area. While they wait, they remain largely voiceless in foster care cases, the ...

Graduate Jeremy Haines (right) receives his certificate of completion from 6th Judicial District Judge Valerie Clay during the 6th Judicial District Drug Treatment Court’s graduation ceremony at the ...

Since 2005, Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas’ Adult Drug Court program has provided participants a path to pursue addiction treatment and find a way forward after facing criminal charges. On ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Hamilton County Juvenile Court has completed a pilot program that marks the first “Girls Court” in Ohio and the nation’s first in a major metropolitan city. The eight-week program ...

The Fall River Recovery Court celebrated a 10-year milestone. Recovery or Drug Court is a Specialty Court within the city's Trail Court circuit that provides defendants with alternatives to ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas — Williamson County has launched a new therapy program designed to keep at-risk youth at home and out of the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The Multisystemic ...