A closed court was frighteningly reminiscent of the 17th-century British Star Chambers and anathema to the American tradition. Tanenhaus, who studies the history of the juvenile justice system, said ...

While our great state of Texas has made some remarkable reforms to the juvenile justice system, that progress has stalled over the last decade. The closure of nine youth prisons − the last of wh ...

The clipping reminds me how traumatic the criminal justice system can be for a child, something I eventually learned firsthand. By 1982, it was me in juvenile court. I dropped out of high school ...

This is at least the second lawsuit challenging proposed constitutional amendments set to appear on ballots in the March ...

It's clear Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas on how to tackle juvenile crime, extremely different ideas.

It is impossible to declare the juvenile justice system’s transition an outright success or failure. What is evident is that some counties are struggling much more than others to move toward the ...

Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu criticized the department for treating an August 2024 federal report as “nothing.” ...

Members of a Texas legislative panel sharply dressed down the state’s Juvenile Justice Department on Tuesday, accusing the agency of dismissing a 72-page federal report alleging widespread abuse ...