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

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

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 ...

Children may be housed in Allegheny County Jail longer than local leaders planned — as there is no firm timeline for ...

And for decades the state had no way of assessing what was happening at the county level to drive up, or drive down, juvenile incarceration rates, or whether money spent to confine kids was having ...

Thirteen-year-old Nura Muhamm's past is scarred by trauma. He fled his village in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State after the community was inved by a group of terrorists, leaving him ...

NO DETENTION MEANS WE HAVE MORE JUVENILE CRIME NOW. WE HAVE LIFE IN PRISON. WHEN THEY’RE 18. THE CHILDREN’S CODE HASN’T BEEN UPDATED SINCE 1978. BERNALILLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAM ...

The children of Natalie Cochran, ages 17 and 20, testified Thursday in her trial where she stands accused of murdering their ...

Obaid was among 110 Palestinian detainees freed in the third phase of a prisoner exchange deal. In return, the Palestinian ...