A newly released state investigation finds staffing failures at the Wayne County juvenile jail from last spring when a 12-year-old boy said he was punched, stomped in the head and raped by other ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Troubled city kids will be farther from their support networks when they land in jail, as the ...

Eric Perez’s mother has been given many reasons why her 18-year-old son died ten days ago at a juvenile jail in West Palm Beach. He woke up one morning hallucinating, complaining of a headache, and ...

An ongoing discussion about the treatment of inmates at Florida juvenile detention facilities continued Thursday when a special committee met at the Marion County Sheriff's Office. Members heard about ...

Caddo Parish's juvenile justice system has a problem, and the people who run it say that problem about to become a crisis. On July 1, 2018 a new Louisiana law -- the Juvenile Justice Reform Act -- ...

He had used them, authorities said, to bilk the government out of money for the poor. When Dorval pleaded no contest to a felony grand theft charge, it should have barred him, by law, from working for ...

ALBANY — The state’s youth detention agency was ripped as incompetent in a blistering report yesterday for allowing three murderers and a robber to attend a sex-soaked “social dance” at a facility in ...

MADISON, Wis. (CN) – A disabled teen who tried to kill herself in her juvenile jail cell exhibited myriad warning signs that staff ignored, she claims in the second federal lawsuit against Wisconsin’s ...

Turns out a former deputy juvenile correctional officer will not be looking at life from the opposite side of the bars, as Tamie Marie Bieker received no jail time Wednesday after copping to rubbing ...

Juveniles who are arrested in New York City over the weekend won’t have to wait until Monday for an arraignment under a change announced Monday that will keep low-risk teens out of dangerous jail ...