Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

A bill in the Illinois statehouse aims to change the state’s approach of juvenile incarceration, arguing the system needs to ...

Local leaders passed resolutions calling for the city and county to move toward zeroing out the number of youth in detention.

Even though the number of juveniles incarcerated in the U.S. has dropped significantly over the past two decades, more than 64,000 children and young adults 20 and younger are incarcerated in ...

I was called a number just like you,” Marcus Harvin began. “From this moment on, never call yourself a number. Never ...

And since their sentencing, both have been locked up in New Jersey’s juvenile prison system, the Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC).[1] But for all of their similarities, there is a world’s ...

Researchers began interviewing youth in custody in 1998 and continued until 2011. They had a sample of about 1,700 people and ...

Even though the number of juveniles incarcerated in the U.S. has dropped significantly over the past two decades, more than 64,000 children and young adults 20 and younger are incarcerated in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In British Columbia, a study of youth incarceration indicates that longer custody periods correlate with reduced reoffending rates post-release. This contrasts ...

A new study has found that B.C. youth who were previously incarcerated were less likely to re-offend following their release from prison. The long-term study from Simon Fraser University and led ...