Texas’ juvenile justice system was rocked by scandal in 2007 ... much money was being spent on juvenile prisons. In 2008, the American Correctional Association estimated that it cost, on ...

A recent hearing from the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee reignited a long-standing debate among state politicians: whether the state’s practice of automatically filtering teenage ...

New Jersey’s Indiscriminate Prosecution of Children as Adults,” reveals that prosecutors have near-total discretion to decide ...

Reforming the juvenile justice system continues to dominate discussions at the State House. State lawmakers are currently considering a bill that would sharply reduce the number of crimes for which a ...

More lawsuits were filed this week alleging widespread sexual abuse inside the juvenile justice system in Illinois.

Attorney Lashandra Peoples-Johnson provided an overview of how the justice system addresses crimes committed ... and potential outcomes. Juvenile Delinquents: Cases are handled at the Family ...

A new juvenile services director was hired after reports of mistreatment and misconduct, but the community was ignored in the ...

Lawmakers expressed little surprise at the repeated arrest of a 15-year-old accused of stealing seven cars in seven ...

PURE Academy, which has partnered with Shelby County Juvenile Court to keep young men out of jail, opened its secondary ...

Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman has been loudly pushing for harsher punishments for juvenile offenders.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A Louisville-based organization that works to improve the lives of children in Kentucky is asking for major reform in the state’s juvenile justice system. “If it does not ...