In addition to raising the age that kids can be detained from 10 to 12, starting in mid-2027 the bill would also raise the ...

That case has some calling for a change to the criteria the county uses to decide if teens should be taken off the streets ...

The study focused on more than 1,800 youths sampled at intake at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in the 1990s, and it didn’t differentiate between different ages of detained ...