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 ...

Juveniles in Ohio can no longer be sentenced to life in prison without parole, in most cases. Ohio joined 23 other states with similar bans a week ago, and ap THE VINDICATOR × ...

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 ...

Black juveniles are six times ... i.e., more children who will be arrested for non-criminal offenses and dumped into the school-to-prison pipeline. We’d be wise to heed the advice of the experts ...

which sends more youth to juvenile prison and the adult system than any other county, as highlighted in cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer’s six-week series, Delinquent: Our System, Our Kids.

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

Juvenile correction staff allowed a teenager ... requirements for internal staffing and complying with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, according to the audit. State officials have ...

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

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