James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

Overcrowding at Washington’s biggest juvenile detention center has grown to crisis levels over the past year. A slew of bills ...

The last of three girls to admit to battering a children’s home employee during a breakout has been sentenced. Gabriala Peters, 17, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in the Indiana Department of ...

This article is part of an ongoing series about juvenile justice. Read part one here. The case involved a gun — or, at least, ...

Gov. Jim Pillen and Nebraska law enforcement officials back a proposed law that would allow the state to jail children as ...

One of two suspects has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after authorities say a man and his girlfriend drugged a child ...

A high-level staffer at Rhode Island's prison system has resigned months after he was charged with child pornography and ...

Two of Gov. Lujan Grisham's biggest priorities are updating the children's code and holding people who break the law accountable.