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

Behind the locked gates of Richard L. Bean juvenile prison in Knoxville are shackled kids, no privacy and Bean’s favorite sadism: children in solitary confinement, often for days at a time.

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

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

The Sangamon County Juvenile Center is reopening after extensive renovations and a review by the Administrative Office of ...

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