This secrecy fosters ignorance; when was the last time you thought about what life is like for people in the prison or jail nearest to where you live? Juvenile prisons are especially good at hidin ...

Legislators have raised the idea of contracting with county juvenile detention facilities to ease the overcrowding. They’ve even pondered using the Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women in ...

A sign and fence at the Green Hill School for juvenile offenders, in Chehalis, Washington. (Photo by Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard) Overcrowding at ...

The Juvenile Court in Accra has sentenced the 15-year-old boy found guilty of conspiring with a teenager to murder a 10-year-old boy in Kasoa for money rituals to 12 months in prison. He will serve ...

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 ...

What the Louisiana Juvenile Justice Amendment Would Change Currently, Louisiana law limits the crimes for which minors under 17 can be sent to adult prison, including murder, rape, and armed robbery.

Three years later, he landed in an inpatient hospital after expressing suicidal thoughts. After more than a decade cycling through juvenile detention, foster care placements, and state prisons, Valdez ...